eine heilige Kuh schlachten
The verdict
“eine heilige Kuh schlachten” 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
- 27
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine bislang unantastbare Sache ändern, ein Tabu brechen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eine heilige Kuh schlachten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eine heilige Kuh schlachten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for eine heilige Kuh schlachten is 27 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: "eine bislang unantastbare Sache ändern, ein Tabu brechen".
No misspelling variants are generated for eine heilige Kuh schlachten 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 eine heilige Kuh schlachten, spelled E-I-N-E- -H-E-I-L-I-G-E- -K-U-H- -S-C-H-L-A-C-H-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine bislang unantastbare Sache ändern, ein Tabu brechen
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Using “eine heilige Kuh schlachten”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E- -H-E-I-L-I-G-E- -K-U-H- -S-C-H-L-A-C-H-T-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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