die Katze aus dem Sack lassen
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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Katze aus dem Sack lassen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈkat͡sə aʊ̯s deːm zak ˈlasn̩] |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1jemandem etwas verraten, ein Geheimnis lüften
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