grünes Licht geben
[ˌɡʁyːnəs ˈlɪçt ˌɡeːbn̩]
The verdict
“grünes Licht geben” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - genehmigen, die Erlaubnis erteilen ein Vorhaben durchzuführen
Corpus desk
Index DE-grunes-licht-geben · grünes Licht geben · German
grünes Licht geben · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grünes Licht geben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌɡʁyːnəs ˈlɪçt ˌɡeːbn̩] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grünes Licht geben” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
grünes Licht geben is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [ˌɡʁyːnəs ˈlɪçt ˌɡeːbn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "genehmigen, die Erlaubnis erteilen ein Vorhaben durchzuführen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grünes Licht geben, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is grünes Licht geben, spelled G-R-Ü-N-E-S- -L-I-C-H-T- -G-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1genehmigen, die Erlaubnis erteilen ein Vorhaben durchzuführen
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