easy come, easy go

/[ˈiːzi kʌm ˈiːzi ɡəʊ]/ phrase

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18 characters

Language

German

word origin

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similar word pairs

easy come, easy go is aGermanphrase. It means: etwas erlangen und wieder verlieren, meist zeitnah; eventuell wird ein Zusammenhang postuliert; oft nach dem Verlust benutzt Pronounced [ˈiːzi kʌm ˈiːzi ɡəʊ].

Key facts for easy come, easy go
PropertyValue
Headwordeasy come, easy go
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈiːzi kʌm ˈiːzi ɡəʊ]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

easy come, easy go is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for easy come, easy go is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈiːzi kʌm ˈiːzi ɡəʊ]. 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: "etwas erlangen und wieder verlieren, meist zeitnah; eventuell wird ein Zusammenhang postuliert; oft nach dem Verlust benutzt".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for easy come, easy go in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 easy come, easy go, spelled E-A-S-Y- -C-O-M-E-,- -E-A-S-Y- -G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    etwas erlangen und wieder verlieren, meist zeitnah; eventuell wird ein Zusammenhang postuliert; oft nach dem Verlust benutzt

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "easy come, easy go"?
"easy come, easy go" is spelled E-A-S-Y- -C-O-M-E-,- -E-A-S-Y- -G-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈiːzi kʌm ˈiːzi ɡəʊ].
What does "easy come, easy go" mean?
As a phrase, "easy come, easy go" means: etwas erlangen und wieder verlieren, meist zeitnah; eventuell wird ein Zusammenhang postuliert; oft nach dem Verlust benutzt
How do you pronounce "easy come, easy go"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "easy come, easy go" is [ˈiːzi kʌm ˈiːzi ɡəʊ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "easy come, easy go" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.