ge betalt för gammal ost
The verdict
“ge betalt för gammal ost” 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
- 24
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: sich rächen; jemanden für ein Unrecht oder eine Kränkung büßen lassen; es jemandem ordentlich besorgen, heimzahlen; etwas jemandem heimzahlen; ein erlittenes Unrecht vergelten; eine alte Rechnung b...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ge betalt för gammal ost |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈjeː be̞ˈtɑːlt ˈfœːr `ɡamːal ˈʊst] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ge betalt för gammal ost” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ge betalt för gammal ost is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeː be̞ˈtɑːlt ˈfœːr `ɡamːal ˈʊst]. 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: "sich rächen; jemanden für ein Unrecht oder eine Kränkung büßen lassen; es jemandem ordentlich besorgen, heimzahlen; etwas jemandem heimzahlen; ein erlittenes Unrecht vergelten; eine alte Rechnung b...".
No misspelling variants are generated for ge betalt för gammal ost 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 ge betalt för gammal ost, spelled G-E- -B-E-T-A-L-T- -F-Ö-R- -G-A-M-M-A-L- -O-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich rächen; jemanden für ein Unrecht oder eine Kränkung büßen lassen; es jemandem ordentlich besorgen, heimzahlen; etwas jemandem heimzahlen; ein erlittenes Unrecht vergelten; eine alte Rechnung begleichen; „für alten Käse bezahlt geben“
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Using “ge betalt för gammal ost”
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- The one correct German spelling is G-E- -B-E-T-A-L-T- -F-Ö-R- -G-A-M-M-A-L- -O-S-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈjeː be̞ˈtɑːlt ˈfœːr `ɡamːal ˈʊst] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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