frohes neues Jahr

/[ˌfʁoːəs ˌnɔɪ̯əs ˈjaːɐ̯]/ phrase

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German

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frohes neues Jahr is aGermanphrase. It means: mit den besten Wünschen versehener Gruß zum neuen Jahr Pronounced [ˌfʁoːəs ˌnɔɪ̯əs ˈjaːɐ̯].

Key facts for frohes neues Jahr
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Headwordfrohes neues Jahr
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌfʁoːəs ˌnɔɪ̯əs ˈjaːɐ̯]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

frohes neues Jahr is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for frohes neues Jahr is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌfʁoːəs ˌnɔɪ̯əs ˈjaːɐ̯]. 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: "mit den besten Wünschen versehener Gruß zum neuen Jahr".

No misspelling variants are generated for frohes neues Jahr 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 frohes neues Jahr, spelled F-R-O-H-E-S- -N-E-U-E-S- -J-A-H-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    mit den besten Wünschen versehener Gruß zum neuen Jahr

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How do you spell "frohes neues Jahr"?
"frohes neues Jahr" is spelled F-R-O-H-E-S- -N-E-U-E-S- -J-A-H-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌfʁoːəs ˌnɔɪ̯əs ˈjaːɐ̯].
What does "frohes neues Jahr" mean?
As a phrase, "frohes neues Jahr" means: mit den besten Wünschen versehener Gruß zum neuen Jahr
How do you pronounce "frohes neues Jahr"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "frohes neues Jahr" is [ˌfʁoːəs ˌnɔɪ̯əs ˈjaːɐ̯]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.