gebranntes Kind scheut das Feuer
The verdict
“gebranntes Kind scheut das Feuer” 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
- 32
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: wer einmal eine schlechte Erfahrung gemacht hat, versucht daraufhin Ähnliches zu vermeiden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gebranntes Kind scheut das Feuer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɡəˌbʁantəs ˈkɪnt ˌʃɔɪ̯t das ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ] |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gebranntes Kind scheut das Feuer” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for gebranntes Kind scheut das Feuer is 32 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˌbʁantəs ˈkɪnt ˌʃɔɪ̯t das ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ]. 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: "wer einmal eine schlechte Erfahrung gemacht hat, versucht daraufhin Ähnliches zu vermeiden".
No misspelling variants are generated for gebranntes Kind scheut das Feuer 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 scheut das Feuer, spelled G-E-B-R-A-N-N-T-E-S- -K-I-N-D- -S-C-H-E-U-T- -D-A-S- -F-E-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1wer einmal eine schlechte Erfahrung gemacht hat, versucht daraufhin Ähnliches zu vermeiden
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- The one correct German spelling is G-E-B-R-A-N-N-T-E-S- -K-I-N-D- -S-C-H-E-U-T- -D-A-S- -F-E-U-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɡəˌbʁantəs ˈkɪnt ˌʃɔɪ̯t das ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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