Irren ist menschlich
[ˈɪʁən ɪst ˈmɛnʃlɪç]
The verdict
“Irren ist menschlich” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — jeder Mensch kann sich einmal irren
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Irren ist menschlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈɪʁən ɪst ˈmɛnʃlɪç] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Irren ist menschlich” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Irren ist menschlich is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɪʁən ɪst ˈmɛnʃlɪç]. 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: "jeder Mensch kann sich einmal irren".
No misspelling variants are generated for Irren ist menschlich 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 Irren ist menschlich, spelled I-R-R-E-N- -I-S-T- -M-E-N-S-C-H-L-I-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jeder Mensch kann sich einmal irren
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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- The one correct German spelling is I-R-R-E-N- -I-S-T- -M-E-N-S-C-H-L-I-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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