einen alten Zopf abschneiden
The verdict
“einen alten Zopf abschneiden” 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
- 28
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: mit einer veralteten, überholten Tradition, Gewohnheit brechen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einen alten Zopf abschneiden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “einen alten Zopf abschneiden” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einen alten Zopf abschneiden is 28 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: "mit einer veralteten, überholten Tradition, Gewohnheit brechen".
No misspelling variants are generated for einen alten Zopf abschneiden 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 einen alten Zopf abschneiden, spelled E-I-N-E-N- -A-L-T-E-N- -Z-O-P-F- -A-B-S-C-H-N-E-I-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit einer veralteten, überholten Tradition, Gewohnheit brechen
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Using “einen alten Zopf abschneiden”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E-N- -A-L-T-E-N- -Z-O-P-F- -A-B-S-C-H-N-E-I-D-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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