eine schöne Leich
The verdict
“eine schöne Leich” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: stilvolle, würdige Bestattung mit vielen Trauergästen (und anschließendem Leichenschmaus/Umtrunk)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eine schöne Leich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aɪ̯nə ˈʃøːnə ˌlaɪ̯ç] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eine schöne Leich” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for eine schöne Leich is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɪ̯nə ˈʃøːnə ˌlaɪ̯ç]. 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: "stilvolle, würdige Bestattung mit vielen Trauergästen (und anschließendem Leichenschmaus/Umtrunk)".
No misspelling variants are generated for eine schöne Leich 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 schöne Leich, spelled E-I-N-E- -S-C-H-Ö-N-E- -L-E-I-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1stilvolle, würdige Bestattung mit vielen Trauergästen (und anschließendem Leichenschmaus/Umtrunk)
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Using “eine schöne Leich”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E- -S-C-H-Ö-N-E- -L-E-I-C-H — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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