eine weiße Weste haben
The verdict
“eine weiße Weste haben” 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
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: unschuldig sein, ein reines Gewissen haben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eine weiße Weste haben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nə ˈvaɪ̯sə ˈvɛstə ˈhaːbn̩] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eine weiße Weste haben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for eine weiße Weste haben is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nə ˈvaɪ̯sə ˈvɛstə ˈhaːbn̩]. 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: "unschuldig sein, ein reines Gewissen haben".
No misspelling variants are generated for eine weiße Weste haben 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 weiße Weste haben, spelled E-I-N-E- -W-E-I-S-S-E- -W-E-S-T-E- -H-A-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1unschuldig sein, ein reines Gewissen haben
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Using “eine weiße Weste haben”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E- -W-E-I-S-S-E- -W-E-S-T-E- -H-A-B-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaɪ̯nə ˈvaɪ̯sə ˈvɛstə ˈhaːbn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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