Fleisch und Blut
[flaɪ̯ʃ ʊnt ˈbluːt]
The verdict
“Fleisch und Blut” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - tatsächlich körperlich existierend
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fleisch und Blut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [flaɪ̯ʃ ʊnt ˈbluːt] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Fleisch und Blut” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Fleisch und Blut is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [flaɪ̯ʃ ʊnt ˈbluːt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Fleisch und Blut 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 Fleisch und Blut, spelled F-L-E-I-S-C-H- -U-N-D- -B-L-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1tatsächlich körperlich existierend
- 2jemandes leiblicher Nachkomme, jemandes leibliche Nachkommen
- 3jemandem durch ständige Wiederholung zur selbstverständlichen Gewohnheit werden
This word in other languages
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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Using “Fleisch und Blut”
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- The one correct German spelling is F-L-E-I-S-C-H- -U-N-D- -B-L-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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