ein Mann, ein Wort

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ein Mann, ein Wort is aGermanphrase. It means: Versprechen eines Mannes an sein Gegenüber, dem nachzukommen, was er diesem zugesichert hat (einer Erwartung, Forderung, Verpflichtung, …) Pronounced […].

Key facts for ein Mann, ein Wort
PropertyValue
Headwordein Mann, ein Wort
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ein Mann, ein Wort is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ein Mann, ein Wort is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, 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: "Versprechen eines Mannes an sein Gegenüber, dem nachzukommen, was er diesem zugesichert hat (einer Erwartung, Forderung, Verpflichtung, …)".

No misspelling variants are generated for ein Mann, ein Wort 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 ein Mann, ein Wort, spelled E-I-N- -M-A-N-N-,- -E-I-N- -W-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Versprechen eines Mannes an sein Gegenüber, dem nachzukommen, was er diesem zugesichert hat (einer Erwartung, Forderung, Verpflichtung, …)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ein Mann, ein Wort"?
"ein Mann, ein Wort" is spelled E-I-N- -M-A-N-N-,- -E-I-N- -W-O-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "ein Mann, ein Wort" mean?
As a phrase, "ein Mann, ein Wort" means: Versprechen eines Mannes an sein Gegenüber, dem nachzukommen, was er diesem zugesichert hat (einer Erwartung, Forderung, Verpflichtung, …)
How do you pronounce "ein Mann, ein Wort"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ein Mann, ein Wort" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ein Mann, ein Wort" come from?
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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.