in vino veritas
Letters
15 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
in vino veritas is aGermanphrase. It means: „Im Wein [ist/liegt] Wahrheit.“ Betrunkene Personen sprechen die Wahrheit, das heißt, die wahre Natur zeigt sich.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | in vino veritas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for in vino veritas is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase. 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: "„Im Wein [ist/liegt] Wahrheit.“ Betrunkene Personen sprechen die Wahrheit, das heißt, die wahre Natur zeigt sich.".
No misspelling variants are generated for in vino veritas 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 vino veritas, spelled I-N- -V-I-N-O- -V-E-R-I-T-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1„Im Wein [ist/liegt] Wahrheit.“ Betrunkene Personen sprechen die Wahrheit, das heißt, die wahre Natur zeigt sich.
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