die Flinte ins Korn werfen

/[diː ˈflɪntə ɪns kɔʁn ˈvɛʁfən]/ phrase

Letters

26 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

die Flinte ins Korn werfen is aGermanphrase. It means: zu schnell aufgeben Pronounced [diː ˈflɪntə ɪns kɔʁn ˈvɛʁfən].

Key facts for die Flinte ins Korn werfen
PropertyValue
Headworddie Flinte ins Korn werfen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[diː ˈflɪntə ɪns kɔʁn ˈvɛʁfən]
Letters26
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

die Flinte ins Korn werfen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for die Flinte ins Korn werfen is 26 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈflɪntə ɪns kɔʁn ˈvɛʁfən]. 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: "zu schnell aufgeben".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for die Flinte ins Korn werfen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Flinte ins Korn werfen, spelled D-I-E- -F-L-I-N-T-E- -I-N-S- -K-O-R-N- -W-E-R-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    zu schnell aufgeben

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "die Flinte ins Korn werfen"?
"die Flinte ins Korn werfen" is spelled D-I-E- -F-L-I-N-T-E- -I-N-S- -K-O-R-N- -W-E-R-F-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [diː ˈflɪntə ɪns kɔʁn ˈvɛʁfən].
What does "die Flinte ins Korn werfen" mean?
As a phrase, "die Flinte ins Korn werfen" means: zu schnell aufgeben
How do you pronounce "die Flinte ins Korn werfen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "die Flinte ins Korn werfen" is [diː ˈflɪntə ɪns kɔʁn ˈvɛʁfən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "die Flinte ins Korn werfen" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.