die Katze aus dem Sack lassen

/[diː ˈkat͡sə aʊ̯s deːm zak ˈlasn̩]/ phrase

Letters

29 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

die Katze aus dem Sack lassen is aGermanphrase. It means: jemandem etwas verraten, ein Geheimnis lüften Pronounced [diː ˈkat͡sə aʊ̯s deːm zak ˈlasn̩].

Key facts for die Katze aus dem Sack lassen
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Headworddie Katze aus dem Sack lassen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[diː ˈkat͡sə aʊ̯s deːm zak ˈlasn̩]
Letters29
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

die Katze aus dem Sack lassen 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 Katze aus dem Sack lassen is 29 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈkat͡sə aʊ̯s deːm zak 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: "jemandem etwas verraten, ein Geheimnis lüften".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for die Katze aus dem Sack lassen 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 Katze aus dem Sack lassen, spelled D-I-E- -K-A-T-Z-E- -A-U-S- -D-E-M- -S-A-C-K- -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

  1. 1
    jemandem etwas verraten, ein Geheimnis lüften

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "die Katze aus dem Sack lassen"?
"die Katze aus dem Sack lassen" is spelled D-I-E- -K-A-T-Z-E- -A-U-S- -D-E-M- -S-A-C-K- -L-A-S-S-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [diː ˈkat͡sə aʊ̯s deːm zak ˈlasn̩].
What does "die Katze aus dem Sack lassen" mean?
As a phrase, "die Katze aus dem Sack lassen" means: jemandem etwas verraten, ein Geheimnis lüften
How do you pronounce "die Katze aus dem Sack lassen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "die Katze aus dem Sack lassen" is [diː ˈkat͡sə aʊ̯s deːm zak ˈlasn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "die Katze aus dem Sack lassen" 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.