ingen ko på isen
The verdict
“ingen ko på isen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: keine besondere Eile oder Gefahr; es droht keine Gefahr, es ist alles in Butter; keine akute Gefahr; Eile mit Weile; „keine Kuh auf dem Eis“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ingen ko på isen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`ɪŋːən ˈkʊː pɔ ˈiːsən] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ingen ko på isen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ingen ko på isen is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`ɪŋːən ˈkʊː pɔ ˈiːsən]. 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: "keine besondere Eile oder Gefahr; es droht keine Gefahr, es ist alles in Butter; keine akute Gefahr; Eile mit Weile; „keine Kuh auf dem Eis“".
No misspelling variants are generated for ingen ko på isen 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 ingen ko på isen, spelled I-N-G-E-N- -K-O- -P-Å- -I-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1keine besondere Eile oder Gefahr; es droht keine Gefahr, es ist alles in Butter; keine akute Gefahr; Eile mit Weile; „keine Kuh auf dem Eis“
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- The one correct German spelling is I-N-G-E-N- -K-O- -P-Å- -I-S-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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