die Katze im Sack kaufen
[diː ˈkat͡sə ɪm ˈzak ˌkaʊ̯fn̩]
The verdict
“die Katze im Sack kaufen” 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) - etwas erwerben, ohne es vorher zu prüfen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Katze im Sack kaufen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈkat͡sə ɪm ˈzak ˌkaʊ̯fn̩] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “die Katze im Sack kaufen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for die Katze im Sack kaufen is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈkat͡sə ɪm ˈzak ˌkaʊ̯fn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for die Katze im Sack kaufen 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 Katze im Sack kaufen, spelled D-I-E- -K-A-T-Z-E- -I-M- -S-A-C-K- -K-A-U-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas erwerben, ohne es vorher zu prüfen
- 2sich auf etwas Unbekanntes einlassen
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- The one correct German spelling is D-I-E- -K-A-T-Z-E- -I-M- -S-A-C-K- -K-A-U-F-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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