einen Türken bauen
The verdict
“einen Türken bauen” 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: umgangssprachlich, oft als diskriminierend empfunden: in Täuschungsabsicht jemandem gegenüber einen Sachverhalt als real, wahr darstellen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einen Türken bauen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌaɪ̯nən ˈtʏʁkn̩ ˈbaʊ̯ən] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “einen Türken bauen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einen Türken bauen is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌaɪ̯nən ˈtʏʁkn̩ ˈbaʊ̯ən]. 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: "umgangssprachlich, oft als diskriminierend empfunden: in Täuschungsabsicht jemandem gegenüber einen Sachverhalt als real, wahr darstellen".
No misspelling variants are generated for einen Türken bauen 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 Türken bauen, spelled E-I-N-E-N- -T-Ü-R-K-E-N- -B-A-U-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1umgangssprachlich, oft als diskriminierend empfunden: in Täuschungsabsicht jemandem gegenüber einen Sachverhalt als real, wahr darstellen
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E-N- -T-Ü-R-K-E-N- -B-A-U-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌaɪ̯nən ˈtʏʁkn̩ ˈbaʊ̯ən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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