ins kalte Wasser springen
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The verdict
“ins kalte Wasser springen” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sich in einer neuen, unbekannten Situation oder bei einer solchen Aufgabe bewähren müssen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ins kalte Wasser springen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ins kalte Wasser springen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ins kalte Wasser springen is 25 letters long, classified as a phrase, 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: "sich in einer neuen, unbekannten Situation oder bei einer solchen Aufgabe bewähren müssen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ins kalte Wasser springen in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is ins kalte Wasser springen, spelled I-N-S- -K-A-L-T-E- -W-A-S-S-E-R- -S-P-R-I-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich in einer neuen, unbekannten Situation oder bei einer solchen Aufgabe bewähren müssen
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ins kalte Wasser springen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is I-N-S- -K-A-L-T-E- -W-A-S-S-E-R- -S-P-R-I-N-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.