der Zweck heiligt die Mittel
The verdict
“der Zweck heiligt die Mittel” 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
- 28
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: für einen guten Zweck dürfen auch fragwürdige Mittel eingesetzt werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | der Zweck heiligt die Mittel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [deːɐ̯ ˈt͡svɛk ˈhaɪ̯lɪçt diː ˈmɪtl̩] |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “der Zweck heiligt die Mittel” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for der Zweck heiligt die Mittel is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːɐ̯ ˈt͡svɛk ˈhaɪ̯lɪçt diː ˈmɪtl̩]. 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: "für einen guten Zweck dürfen auch fragwürdige Mittel eingesetzt werden".
No misspelling variants are generated for der Zweck heiligt die Mittel 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 Zweck heiligt die Mittel, spelled D-E-R- -Z-W-E-C-K- -H-E-I-L-I-G-T- -D-I-E- -M-I-T-T-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1für einen guten Zweck dürfen auch fragwürdige Mittel eingesetzt werden
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- The one correct German spelling is D-E-R- -Z-W-E-C-K- -H-E-I-L-I-G-T- -D-I-E- -M-I-T-T-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [deːɐ̯ ˈt͡svɛk ˈhaɪ̯lɪçt diː ˈmɪtl̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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