Hals- und Beinbruch
The verdict
“Hals- und Beinbruch” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: umgangssprachliche Wunschformel für das gute Gelingen eines Vorhabens mit der Bedeutung: Viel Glück!
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hals- und Beinbruch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌhals ʔʊnt ˈbaɪ̯nbʁʊx] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hals- und Beinbruch” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hals- und Beinbruch is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌhals ʔʊnt ˈbaɪ̯nbʁʊx]. 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: "umgangssprachliche Wunschformel für das gute Gelingen eines Vorhabens mit der Bedeutung: Viel Glück!".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hals- und Beinbruch 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 Hals- und Beinbruch, spelled H-A-L-S--- -U-N-D- -B-E-I-N-B-R-U-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1umgangssprachliche Wunschformel für das gute Gelingen eines Vorhabens mit der Bedeutung: Viel Glück!
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Using “Hals- und Beinbruch”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-L-S--- -U-N-D- -B-E-I-N-B-R-U-C-H — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌhals ʔʊnt ˈbaɪ̯nbʁʊx] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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