en vit lögn

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The verdict

“en vit lögn” 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
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine fromme Lüge; die Unwahrheit, weil man zum Beispiel den Zuhörer nicht enttäuschen oder verärgern will; eine Notlüge; eine soziale Lüge; Ziel ist in der Regel nicht der eigene Vorteil, sondern d...

Key facts for en vit lögn
PropertyValue
Headworden vit lögn
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “en vit lögn” sits in German frequency

en vit lögn falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for en vit lögn is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "eine fromme Lüge; die Unwahrheit, weil man zum Beispiel den Zuhörer nicht enttäuschen oder verärgern will; eine Notlüge; eine soziale Lüge; Ziel ist in der Regel nicht der eigene Vorteil, sondern d...".

No misspelling variants are generated for en vit lögn 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 vit lögn, spelled E-N- -V-I-T- -L-Ö-G-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine fromme Lüge; die Unwahrheit, weil man zum Beispiel den Zuhörer nicht enttäuschen oder verärgern will; eine Notlüge; eine soziale Lüge; Ziel ist in der Regel nicht der eigene Vorteil, sondern dem anderen Unbehagen zu ersparen; „eine weiße Lüge“

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "en vit lögn"?
"en vit lögn" is spelled E-N- -V-I-T- -L-Ö-G-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "en vit lögn" mean?
As a phrase, "en vit lögn" means: eine fromme Lüge; die Unwahrheit, weil man zum Beispiel den Zuhörer nicht enttäuschen oder verärgern will; eine Notlüge; eine soziale Lüge; Ziel ist in der Regel nicht der eigene Vorteil, sondern d...
How do you pronounce "en vit lögn"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "en vit lögn" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “en vit lögn”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is E-N- -V-I-T- -L-Ö-G-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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