gebranntes Kind
The verdict
“gebranntes Kind” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: jemand, der eine schlechte Erfahrung gemacht oder einen Schaden erlitten hat und deshalb besonders vorsichtig oder gar übervorsichtig ist und sich vorsieht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gebranntes Kind |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɡəˌbʁantəs ˈkɪnt] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gebranntes Kind” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for gebranntes Kind is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˌbʁantəs ˈkɪnt]. 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: "jemand, der eine schlechte Erfahrung gemacht oder einen Schaden erlitten hat und deshalb besonders vorsichtig oder gar übervorsichtig ist und sich vorsieht".
No misspelling variants are generated for gebranntes Kind 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 gebranntes Kind, spelled G-E-B-R-A-N-N-T-E-S- -K-I-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemand, der eine schlechte Erfahrung gemacht oder einen Schaden erlitten hat und deshalb besonders vorsichtig oder gar übervorsichtig ist und sich vorsieht
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Using “gebranntes Kind”
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- The one correct German spelling is G-E-B-R-A-N-N-T-E-S- -K-I-N-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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