harte Droge
The verdict
“harte Droge” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: stark abhängig machende und meist schnell zu schweren körperlichen und psychischen Schäden führende Droge
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harte Droge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈhaʁtə ˈdʁoːɡə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “harte Droge” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for harte Droge is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhaʁtə ˈdʁoːɡə]. 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: "stark abhängig machende und meist schnell zu schweren körperlichen und psychischen Schäden führende Droge".
No misspelling variants are generated for harte Droge 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 harte Droge, spelled H-A-R-T-E- -D-R-O-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1stark abhängig machende und meist schnell zu schweren körperlichen und psychischen Schäden führende Droge
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Using “harte Droge”
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- The one correct German spelling is H-A-R-T-E- -D-R-O-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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