einen Rückzieher machen
The verdict
“einen Rückzieher machen” 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
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: ein geplantes Vorhaben doch nicht umsetzen; zurücknehmen einer vorher geäußerten Meinung / eines gegebenen Versprechens
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einen Rückzieher machen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aɪ̯nən ˈʁʏkˌt͡siːɐ maxn̩] |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “einen Rückzieher machen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einen Rückzieher machen is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɪ̯nən ˈʁʏkˌt͡siːɐ maxn̩]. 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: "ein geplantes Vorhaben doch nicht umsetzen; zurücknehmen einer vorher geäußerten Meinung / eines gegebenen Versprechens".
No misspelling variants are generated for einen Rückzieher machen 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 Rückzieher machen, spelled E-I-N-E-N- -R-Ü-C-K-Z-I-E-H-E-R- -M-A-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein geplantes Vorhaben doch nicht umsetzen; zurücknehmen einer vorher geäußerten Meinung / eines gegebenen Versprechens
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Using “einen Rückzieher machen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E-N- -R-Ü-C-K-Z-I-E-H-E-R- -M-A-C-H-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aɪ̯nən ˈʁʏkˌt͡siːɐ maxn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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