die Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters
[diː ˈʃøːnhaɪ̯t likt ɪm ˈaʊ̯ɡə dɛs bəˈtʁaxtɐs]
The verdict
“die Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters” 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
- 43
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Schönheit wird verschieden interpretiert; jeder hat seinen eigenen Geschmack; jeder empfindet Schönheit anders
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈʃøːnhaɪ̯t likt ɪm ˈaʊ̯ɡə dɛs bəˈtʁaxtɐs] |
| Letters | 43 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “die Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for die Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters is 43 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈʃøːnhaɪ̯t likt ɪm ˈaʊ̯ɡə dɛs bəˈtʁaxtɐs]. 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: "Schönheit wird verschieden interpretiert; jeder hat seinen eigenen Geschmack; jeder empfindet Schönheit anders".
No misspelling variants are generated for die Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters 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 Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters, spelled D-I-E- -S-C-H-Ö-N-H-E-I-T- -L-I-E-G-T- -I-M- -A-U-G-E- -D-E-S- -B-E-T-R-A-C-H-T-E-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Schönheit wird verschieden interpretiert; jeder hat seinen eigenen Geschmack; jeder empfindet Schönheit anders
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- The one correct German spelling is D-I-E- -S-C-H-Ö-N-H-E-I-T- -L-I-E-G-T- -I-M- -A-U-G-E- -D-E-S- -B-E-T-R-A-C-H-T-E-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [diː ˈʃøːnhaɪ̯t likt ɪm ˈaʊ̯ɡə dɛs bəˈtʁaxtɐs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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