einschlagen wie eine Bombe
[ˈaɪ̯nʃlaːɡŋ̩ viː aɪ̯nə ˈbɔmbə]
The verdict
“einschlagen wie eine Bombe” 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
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — für Aufsehen sorgen, überraschend geschehen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einschlagen wie eine Bombe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nʃlaːɡŋ̩ viː aɪ̯nə ˈbɔmbə] |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “einschlagen wie eine Bombe” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einschlagen wie eine Bombe is 26 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nʃlaːɡŋ̩ viː aɪ̯nə ˈbɔmbə]. 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 einschlagen wie eine Bombe 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 einschlagen wie eine Bombe, spelled E-I-N-S-C-H-L-A-G-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N-E- -B-O-M-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1für Aufsehen sorgen, überraschend geschehen
- 2Erfolg haben, erfolgreich sein
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-S-C-H-L-A-G-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N-E- -B-O-M-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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