ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift

/[ɪç ɡlaʊ̯p maɪ̯n ʃvaɪ̯n p͡faɪ̯ft]/ phrase

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30 characters

Language

German

word origin

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similar word pairs

ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift is aGermanphrase. It means: Aussage, mit der großes Entsetzen, große Verwunderung oder ungläubiges Staunen über etwas geäußert wird Pronounced [ɪç ɡlaʊ̯p maɪ̯n ʃvaɪ̯n p͡faɪ̯ft].

Key facts for ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift
PropertyValue
Headwordich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ɪç ɡlaʊ̯p maɪ̯n ʃvaɪ̯n p͡faɪ̯ft]
Letters30
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift is 30 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪç ɡlaʊ̯p maɪ̯n ʃvaɪ̯n p͡faɪ̯ft]. 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: "Aussage, mit der großes Entsetzen, große Verwunderung oder ungläubiges Staunen über etwas geäußert wird".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift, spelled I-C-H- -G-L-A-U-B-,- -M-E-I-N- -S-C-H-W-E-I-N- -P-F-E-I-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aussage, mit der großes Entsetzen, große Verwunderung oder ungläubiges Staunen über etwas geäußert wird

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift"?
"ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift" is spelled I-C-H- -G-L-A-U-B-,- -M-E-I-N- -S-C-H-W-E-I-N- -P-F-E-I-F-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ɪç ɡlaʊ̯p maɪ̯n ʃvaɪ̯n p͡faɪ̯ft].
What does "ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift" mean?
As a phrase, "ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift" means: Aussage, mit der großes Entsetzen, große Verwunderung oder ungläubiges Staunen über etwas geäußert wird
How do you pronounce "ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift" is [ɪç ɡlaʊ̯p maɪ̯n ʃvaɪ̯n p͡faɪ̯ft]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ich glaub, mein Schwein pfeift" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.