der Zahn der Zeit
[deːɐ̯ ˈt͡saːn deːɐ̯ ˈt͡saɪ̯t]
The verdict
“der Zahn der Zeit” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — zerstörende Kraft der Zeit, die den Verfall und die Abnutzung bewirkt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | der Zahn der Zeit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [deːɐ̯ ˈt͡saːn deːɐ̯ ˈt͡saɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “der Zahn der Zeit” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for der Zahn der Zeit is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːɐ̯ ˈt͡saːn deːɐ̯ ˈt͡saɪ̯t]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "zerstörende Kraft der Zeit, die den Verfall und die Abnutzung bewirkt".
No misspelling variants are generated for der Zahn der Zeit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is der Zahn der Zeit, spelled D-E-R- -Z-A-H-N- -D-E-R- -Z-E-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zerstörende Kraft der Zeit, die den Verfall und die Abnutzung bewirkt
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is D-E-R- -Z-A-H-N- -D-E-R- -Z-E-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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