die Welt ist ein Dorf

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for die Welt ist ein Dorf is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈvɛlt ɪst aɪ̯n ˈdɔʁf]. 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: "sagt man, wenn man an einem weit entfernten Ort überraschenderweise jemanden Bekannten trifft; als wäre man in einem Dorf, begegnet man sich auf der Welt".

No misspelling variants are generated for die Welt ist ein Dorf 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 Welt ist ein Dorf, spelled D-I-E- -W-E-L-T- -I-S-T- -E-I-N- -D-O-R-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.