im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes

/[ɪm ˈvaːɐ̯stn̩ ˈzɪnə dɛs ˈvɔʁtəs]/ phrase

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Language

German

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im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes is aGermanphrase. It means: ohne übertragene Lesweise; ganz genau dem Wortlaut entsprechend; wirklich so zu verstehen, wie es gesagt oder geschrieben wurde Pronounced [ɪm ˈvaːɐ̯stn̩ ˈzɪnə dɛs ˈvɔʁtəs].

Key facts for im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes
PropertyValue
Headwordim wahrsten Sinne des Wortes
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ɪm ˈvaːɐ̯stn̩ ˈzɪnə dɛs ˈvɔʁtəs]
Letters28
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes is 28 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪm ˈvaːɐ̯stn̩ ˈzɪnə dɛs ˈvɔʁtəs]. 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: "ohne übertragene Lesweise; ganz genau dem Wortlaut entsprechend; wirklich so zu verstehen, wie es gesagt oder geschrieben wurde".

No misspelling variants are generated for im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes 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 im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes, spelled I-M- -W-A-H-R-S-T-E-N- -S-I-N-N-E- -D-E-S- -W-O-R-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ohne übertragene Lesweise; ganz genau dem Wortlaut entsprechend; wirklich so zu verstehen, wie es gesagt oder geschrieben wurde

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes"?
"im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes" is spelled I-M- -W-A-H-R-S-T-E-N- -S-I-N-N-E- -D-E-S- -W-O-R-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ɪm ˈvaːɐ̯stn̩ ˈzɪnə dɛs ˈvɔʁtəs].
What does "im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes" mean?
As a phrase, "im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes" means: ohne übertragene Lesweise; ganz genau dem Wortlaut entsprechend; wirklich so zu verstehen, wie es gesagt oder geschrieben wurde
How do you pronounce "im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes" is [ɪm ˈvaːɐ̯stn̩ ˈzɪnə dɛs ˈvɔʁtəs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.