Geld genug macht dumme Leute klug
[ɡɛlt ɡəˈnuːk maxt ˈdʊmə ˈlɔɪ̯tə kluːk]
The verdict
“Geld genug macht dumme Leute klug” 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
- 33
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - mit viel Geld kann man sich gewisse Vorteile erkaufen, zum Beispiel kann man sich in gewissen Ländern den Eintritt in eine Universitäten erkaufen, ohne dem Anforderungsprofil zu entsprechen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geld genug macht dumme Leute klug |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɡɛlt ɡəˈnuːk maxt ˈdʊmə ˈlɔɪ̯tə kluːk] |
| Letters | 33 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Geld genug macht dumme Leute klug” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Geld genug macht dumme Leute klug is 33 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡɛlt ɡəˈnuːk maxt ˈdʊmə ˈlɔɪ̯tə kluːk]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Geld genug macht dumme Leute klug 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 Geld genug macht dumme Leute klug, spelled G-E-L-D- -G-E-N-U-G- -M-A-C-H-T- -D-U-M-M-E- -L-E-U-T-E- -K-L-U-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit viel Geld kann man sich gewisse Vorteile erkaufen, zum Beispiel kann man sich in gewissen Ländern den Eintritt in eine Universitäten erkaufen, ohne dem Anforderungsprofil zu entsprechen
- 2Des Weiteren kann man darunter auch verstehen, dass sich die Personen, welche viel oder sehr viel Geld haben, für sehr schlau und etwas Besseres halten, nur weil sie sich nun gewisse Vorteile erkaufen können. „Geld genug macht dumme Leute klug“ sagt somit aus, dass das Geld die Moral und den wahren Menschenverstand verändern kann.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is G-E-L-D- -G-E-N-U-G- -M-A-C-H-T- -D-U-M-M-E- -L-E-U-T-E- -K-L-U-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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