Dienst ist Dienst und Schnaps ist Schnaps
[ˈdiːnst ɪst ˈdiːnst ʊnt ˈʃnaps ɪst ˈʃnaps]
The verdict
“Dienst ist Dienst und Schnaps ist Schnaps” 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
- 41
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Berufsleben und Freizeit sollte man strikt trennen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dienst ist Dienst und Schnaps ist Schnaps |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈdiːnst ɪst ˈdiːnst ʊnt ˈʃnaps ɪst ˈʃnaps] |
| Letters | 41 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dienst ist Dienst und Schnaps ist Schnaps” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Dienst ist Dienst und Schnaps ist Schnaps is 41 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdiːnst ɪst ˈdiːnst ʊnt ˈʃnaps ɪst ˈʃnaps]. 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: "Berufsleben und Freizeit sollte man strikt trennen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dienst ist Dienst und Schnaps ist Schnaps 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 Dienst ist Dienst und Schnaps ist Schnaps, spelled D-I-E-N-S-T- -I-S-T- -D-I-E-N-S-T- -U-N-D- -S-C-H-N-A-P-S- -I-S-T- -S-C-H-N-A-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Berufsleben und Freizeit sollte man strikt trennen
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- The one correct German spelling is D-I-E-N-S-T- -I-S-T- -D-I-E-N-S-T- -U-N-D- -S-C-H-N-A-P-S- -I-S-T- -S-C-H-N-A-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈdiːnst ɪst ˈdiːnst ʊnt ˈʃnaps ɪst ˈʃnaps] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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