die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera

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The verdict

“die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera” 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
40
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sich zwischen zwei mehr oder minder schlechten Optionen entscheiden müssen

Key facts for die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera
PropertyValue
Headworddie Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters40
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera” sits in German frequency

die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera is 40 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: "sich zwischen zwei mehr oder minder schlechten Optionen entscheiden müssen".

No misspelling variants are generated for die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera 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 Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera, spelled D-I-E- -W-A-H-L- -H-A-B-E-N- -Z-W-I-S-C-H-E-N- -P-E-S-T- -U-N-D- -C-H-O-L-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sich zwischen zwei mehr oder minder schlechten Optionen entscheiden müssen

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera"?
"die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera" is spelled D-I-E- -W-A-H-L- -H-A-B-E-N- -Z-W-I-S-C-H-E-N- -P-E-S-T- -U-N-D- -C-H-O-L-E-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera" mean?
As a phrase, "die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera" means: sich zwischen zwei mehr oder minder schlechten Optionen entscheiden müssen
How do you pronounce "die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera" come from?
"die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “die Wahl haben zwischen Pest und Cholera”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is D-I-E- -W-A-H-L- -H-A-B-E-N- -Z-W-I-S-C-H-E-N- -P-E-S-T- -U-N-D- -C-H-O-L-E-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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