hann, ið einki vágar, hann einki vinnur
The verdict
“hann, ið einki vágar, hann einki vinnur” 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
- 39
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: wer nicht wagt, der nicht gewinnt (wörtlich: „Er, der nichts wagt, er nichts gewinnt“)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hann, ið einki vágar, hann einki vinnur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [han i ɔŋt͡ʃɪ vɔːar han ɔŋt͡ʃɪ vɪnːʊr] |
| Letters | 39 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hann, ið einki vágar, hann einki vinnur” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for hann, ið einki vágar, hann einki vinnur is 39 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [han i ɔŋt͡ʃɪ vɔːar han ɔŋt͡ʃɪ vɪnːʊr]. 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 nicht wagt, der nicht gewinnt (wörtlich: „Er, der nichts wagt, er nichts gewinnt“)".
No misspelling variants are generated for hann, ið einki vágar, hann einki vinnur 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 hann, ið einki vágar, hann einki vinnur, spelled H-A-N-N-,- -I-Ð- -E-I-N-K-I- -V-Á-G-A-R-,- -H-A-N-N- -E-I-N-K-I- -V-I-N-N-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1wer nicht wagt, der nicht gewinnt (wörtlich: „Er, der nichts wagt, er nichts gewinnt“)
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- The one correct German spelling is H-A-N-N-,- -I-Ð- -E-I-N-K-I- -V-Á-G-A-R-,- -H-A-N-N- -E-I-N-K-I- -V-I-N-N-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [han i ɔŋt͡ʃɪ vɔːar han ɔŋt͡ʃɪ vɪnːʊr] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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