die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt
[diː ˈhɔfnʊŋ ʃtɪʁpt t͡suˈlɛt͡st]
The verdict
“die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt” 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
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Hoffnung sollte das letzte sein, was man aufgibt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈhɔfnʊŋ ʃtɪʁpt t͡suˈlɛt͡st] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈhɔfnʊŋ ʃtɪʁpt t͡suˈlɛt͡st]. 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: "die Hoffnung sollte das letzte sein, was man aufgibt".
No misspelling variants are generated for die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt 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 Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt, spelled D-I-E- -H-O-F-F-N-U-N-G- -S-T-I-R-B-T- -Z-U-L-E-T-Z-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Hoffnung sollte das letzte sein, was man aufgibt
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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- -H-O-F-F-N-U-N-G- -S-T-I-R-B-T- -Z-U-L-E-T-Z-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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