fałszywy alarm

/[fawˈʃɨvɨ ˈalarm]/ phrase

The verdict

“fałszywy alarm” 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
14
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nachricht, die Unruhe hervorgerufen oder zu einer Handlung geführt hat, sich jedoch als unwahr herausgestellt hat; falscher Alarm, Fehlalarm

Key facts for fałszywy alarm
PropertyValue
Headwordfałszywy alarm
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[fawˈʃɨvɨ ˈalarm]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “fałszywy alarm” sits in German frequency

fałszywy alarm 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 fałszywy alarm is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fawˈʃɨvɨ ˈalarm]. 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: "Nachricht, die Unruhe hervorgerufen oder zu einer Handlung geführt hat, sich jedoch als unwahr herausgestellt hat; falscher Alarm, Fehlalarm".

No misspelling variants are generated for fałszywy alarm 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 fałszywy alarm, spelled F-A-Ł-S-Z-Y-W-Y- -A-L-A-R-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nachricht, die Unruhe hervorgerufen oder zu einer Handlung geführt hat, sich jedoch als unwahr herausgestellt hat; falscher Alarm, Fehlalarm

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fałszywy alarm"?
"fałszywy alarm" is spelled F-A-Ł-S-Z-Y-W-Y- -A-L-A-R-M. The IPA pronunciation is [fawˈʃɨvɨ ˈalarm].
What does "fałszywy alarm" mean?
As a phrase, "fałszywy alarm" means: Nachricht, die Unruhe hervorgerufen oder zu einer Handlung geführt hat, sich jedoch als unwahr herausgestellt hat; falscher Alarm, Fehlalarm
How do you pronounce "fałszywy alarm"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fałszywy alarm" is [fawˈʃɨvɨ ˈalarm]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fałszywy alarm" come from?
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Using “fałszywy alarm”

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

  • The one correct German spelling is F-A-Ł-S-Z-Y-W-Y- -A-L-A-R-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [fawˈʃɨvɨ ˈalarm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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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