im Großen und Ganzen

/[ɪm ˈɡʁoːsn̩ ʊnt ˈɡant͡sn̩]/ phrase

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20 characters

Language

German

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im Großen und Ganzen is aGermanphrase. It means: insgesamt betrachtet, allgemein Pronounced [ɪm ˈɡʁoːsn̩ ʊnt ˈɡant͡sn̩].

Key facts for im Großen und Ganzen
PropertyValue
Headwordim Großen und Ganzen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ɪm ˈɡʁoːsn̩ ʊnt ˈɡant͡sn̩]
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

im Großen und Ganzen 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 im Großen und Ganzen is 20 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪm ˈɡʁoːsn̩ ʊnt ˈɡant͡sn̩]. 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: "insgesamt betrachtet, allgemein".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for im Großen und Ganzen 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 im Großen und Ganzen, spelled I-M- -G-R-O-S-S-E-N- -U-N-D- -G-A-N-Z-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    insgesamt betrachtet, allgemein

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "im Großen und Ganzen"?
"im Großen und Ganzen" is spelled I-M- -G-R-O-SS-E-N- -U-N-D- -G-A-N-Z-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ɪm ˈɡʁoːsn̩ ʊnt ˈɡant͡sn̩].
What does "im Großen und Ganzen" mean?
As a phrase, "im Großen und Ganzen" means: insgesamt betrachtet, allgemein
How do you pronounce "im Großen und Ganzen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "im Großen und Ganzen" is [ɪm ˈɡʁoːsn̩ ʊnt ˈɡant͡sn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "im Großen und Ganzen" 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.