die Bombe platzen lassen
[diː ˈbɔmbə ˈplat͡sn̩ ˈlasn̩]
The verdict
“die Bombe platzen lassen” 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
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine überraschende Nachricht bekannt geben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Bombe platzen lassen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈbɔmbə ˈplat͡sn̩ ˈlasn̩] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “die Bombe platzen lassen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for die Bombe platzen lassen is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈbɔmbə ˈplat͡sn̩ ˈlasn̩]. 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: "eine überraschende Nachricht bekannt geben".
No misspelling variants are generated for die Bombe platzen lassen 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 die Bombe platzen lassen, spelled D-I-E- -B-O-M-B-E- -P-L-A-T-Z-E-N- -L-A-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine überraschende Nachricht bekannt geben
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-I-E- -B-O-M-B-E- -P-L-A-T-Z-E-N- -L-A-S-S-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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