in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

50 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king is aGermanphrase. It means: unter den Blinden ist der Einäugige König Pronounced […].

Key facts for in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
PropertyValue
Headwordin the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters50
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king 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 in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king is 50 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "unter den Blinden ist der Einäugige König".

No misspelling variants are generated for in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king 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 in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, spelled I-N- -T-H-E- -L-A-N-D- -O-F- -T-H-E- -B-L-I-N-D-,- -T-H-E- -O-N-E---E-Y-E-D- -M-A-N- -I-S- -K-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    unter den Blinden ist der Einäugige König

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"?
"in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" is spelled I-N- -T-H-E- -L-A-N-D- -O-F- -T-H-E- -B-L-I-N-D-,- -T-H-E- -O-N-E---E-Y-E-D- -M-A-N- -I-S- -K-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" mean?
As a phrase, "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" means: unter den Blinden ist der Einäugige König
How do you pronounce "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" 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.