einen Krebs fangen
The verdict
“einen Krebs fangen” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (wegen einer plötzlichen Welle oder anderen Umständen) den Riemen zum Rückholen nicht ordentlich aus dem Wasser bekommen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einen Krebs fangen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nən kʁeːps ˈfaŋən] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “einen Krebs fangen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einen Krebs fangen is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nən kʁeːps ˈfaŋən]. 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: "(wegen einer plötzlichen Welle oder anderen Umständen) den Riemen zum Rückholen nicht ordentlich aus dem Wasser bekommen".
No misspelling variants are generated for einen Krebs fangen 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 Krebs fangen, spelled E-I-N-E-N- -K-R-E-B-S- -F-A-N-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(wegen einer plötzlichen Welle oder anderen Umständen) den Riemen zum Rückholen nicht ordentlich aus dem Wasser bekommen
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Using “einen Krebs fangen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E-N- -K-R-E-B-S- -F-A-N-G-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaɪ̯nən kʁeːps ˈfaŋən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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