eine Rolle spielen
Letters
18 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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eine Rolle spielen is aGermanphrase. It means: in einem Theaterstück / Film Schauspieler sein Pronounced [ˈaɪ̯nə ˈʁɔlə ˈʃpiːlən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eine Rolle spielen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nə ˈʁɔlə ˈʃpiːlən] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for eine Rolle spielen is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nə ˈʁɔlə ˈʃpiːlən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for eine Rolle spielen 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 eine Rolle spielen, spelled E-I-N-E- -R-O-L-L-E- -S-P-I-E-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in einem Theaterstück / Film Schauspieler sein
- 2relevant / wichtig sein; die Bedeutung kann durch ein Adjektiv verstärkt (d.h. sehr wichtig) oder umgedreht (d.h. unwichtig) werden, siehe unten in den Charakteristischen Wortkombinationen
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