gebrochenes Herz
The verdict
“gebrochenes Herz” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Metapher für intensiven emotionalen Schmerz, oft nach dem Ende einer Beziehung oder dem Verlust einer geliebten Person
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gebrochenes Herz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɡəˌbʁɔxənəs ˈhɛʁt͡s] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gebrochenes Herz” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for gebrochenes Herz is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡəˌbʁɔxənəs ˈhɛʁt͡s]. 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: "Metapher für intensiven emotionalen Schmerz, oft nach dem Ende einer Beziehung oder dem Verlust einer geliebten Person".
No misspelling variants are generated for gebrochenes Herz 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 gebrochenes Herz, spelled G-E-B-R-O-C-H-E-N-E-S- -H-E-R-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Metapher für intensiven emotionalen Schmerz, oft nach dem Ende einer Beziehung oder dem Verlust einer geliebten Person
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- The one correct German spelling is G-E-B-R-O-C-H-E-N-E-S- -H-E-R-Z — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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