en passant schlagen
[ɑ̃paˈsɑ̃ ˈʃlaːɡn̩]
The verdict
“en passant schlagen” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - gemäß einer Sonderregel darf ein Bauer einen gegnerischen Bauern auch dann schlagen, wenn dieser einen Doppelschritt von der Grundreihe ausgeführt hat und neben dem eigenen Bauern zu stehen kommt; ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | en passant schlagen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɑ̃paˈsɑ̃ ˈʃlaːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “en passant schlagen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for en passant schlagen is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɑ̃paˈsɑ̃ ˈʃlaːɡn̩]. 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: "gemäß einer Sonderregel darf ein Bauer einen gegnerischen Bauern auch dann schlagen, wenn dieser einen Doppelschritt von der Grundreihe ausgeführt hat und neben dem eigenen Bauern zu stehen kommt; ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for en passant schlagen 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 en passant schlagen, spelled E-N- -P-A-S-S-A-N-T- -S-C-H-L-A-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1gemäß einer Sonderregel darf ein Bauer einen gegnerischen Bauern auch dann schlagen, wenn dieser einen Doppelschritt von der Grundreihe ausgeführt hat und neben dem eigenen Bauern zu stehen kommt; er darf dann so geschlagen werden, als ob er nur ein Feld vorgerückt wäre
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-N- -P-A-S-S-A-N-T- -S-C-H-L-A-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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