die Revolution frisst ihre eigenen Kinder

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for die Revolution frisst ihre eigenen Kinder is 41 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌdiː ʁevoluˌt͡si̯oːn fʁɪst ˌʔiːʁə ˈʔaɪ̯ɡənən ˈkɪndɐ]. 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: "im Gang der Ereignisse bleiben ihre Initiatoren leicht auf der Strecke oder – ins Abstrakte gewendet – etwas schlägt nach positiven Ansätzen schließlich ins Negative um und hebt sich selbst wieder ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for die Revolution frisst ihre eigenen Kinder 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 Revolution frisst ihre eigenen Kinder, spelled D-I-E- -R-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N- -F-R-I-S-S-T- -I-H-R-E- -E-I-G-E-N-E-N- -K-I-N-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.