ins Wasser gehen
The verdict
“ins Wasser gehen” 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: sich ertränken
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ins Wasser gehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɪns ˈvasɐ ˈɡeːən] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ins Wasser gehen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ins Wasser gehen is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪns ˈvasɐ ˈɡeːən]. 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 ertränken".
No misspelling variants are generated for ins Wasser gehen 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 ins Wasser gehen, spelled I-N-S- -W-A-S-S-E-R- -G-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich ertränken
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Using “ins Wasser gehen”
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- The one correct German spelling is I-N-S- -W-A-S-S-E-R- -G-E-H-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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