einer Sache freien Lauf lassen
The verdict
“einer Sache freien Lauf lassen” 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
- 30
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: etwas ohne einzuschreiten geschehen lassen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einer Sache freien Lauf lassen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nɐ ˈzaxə ˈfʁaɪ̯ən ˈlaʊ̯f ˈlasn̩] |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “einer Sache freien Lauf lassen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einer Sache freien Lauf lassen is 30 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nɐ ˈzaxə ˈfʁaɪ̯ən ˈlaʊ̯f ˈlasn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for einer Sache freien Lauf lassen 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 einer Sache freien Lauf lassen, spelled E-I-N-E-R- -S-A-C-H-E- -F-R-E-I-E-N- -L-A-U-F- -L-A-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas ohne einzuschreiten geschehen lassen
- 2etwas nicht verhindern, unterdrücken
Synonyms
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Using “einer Sache freien Lauf lassen”
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- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E-R- -S-A-C-H-E- -F-R-E-I-E-N- -L-A-U-F- -L-A-S-S-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaɪ̯nɐ ˈzaxə ˈfʁaɪ̯ən ˈlaʊ̯f ˈlasn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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