die Schiffe hinter sich verbrennen
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The verdict
“die Schiffe hinter sich verbrennen” 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
- 34
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - alles hinter sich lassen und den Weg zurück ausschließen; nur noch nach vorne gucken und sich keine Gedanken über eine Rückkehr machen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Schiffe hinter sich verbrennen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 34 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “die Schiffe hinter sich verbrennen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for die Schiffe hinter sich verbrennen is 34 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "alles hinter sich lassen und den Weg zurück ausschließen; nur noch nach vorne gucken und sich keine Gedanken über eine Rückkehr machen".
No misspelling variants are generated for die Schiffe hinter sich verbrennen 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 Schiffe hinter sich verbrennen, spelled D-I-E- -S-C-H-I-F-F-E- -H-I-N-T-E-R- -S-I-C-H- -V-E-R-B-R-E-N-N-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1alles hinter sich lassen und den Weg zurück ausschließen; nur noch nach vorne gucken und sich keine Gedanken über eine Rückkehr machen
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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- -S-C-H-I-F-F-E- -H-I-N-T-E-R- -S-I-C-H- -V-E-R-B-R-E-N-N-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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