ewiges Schach
The verdict
“ewiges Schach” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: die Situation, dass ein König kann den gegnerischen Schachgeboten nicht entkommen kann und die Partie daher Remis endet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ewiges Schach |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌevɪɡəs ˈʃax] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ewiges Schach” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ewiges Schach is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌevɪɡəs ˈʃax]. 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: "die Situation, dass ein König kann den gegnerischen Schachgeboten nicht entkommen kann und die Partie daher Remis endet".
No misspelling variants are generated for ewiges Schach 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 ewiges Schach, spelled E-W-I-G-E-S- -S-C-H-A-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Situation, dass ein König kann den gegnerischen Schachgeboten nicht entkommen kann und die Partie daher Remis endet
Synonyms
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "ewiges Schach"?
What does "ewiges Schach" mean?
How do you pronounce "ewiges Schach"?
What language does "ewiges Schach" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “ewiges Schach”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-W-I-G-E-S- -S-C-H-A-C-H — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌevɪɡəs ˈʃax] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our German index: