it’s all Greek to me
[ɪts ɔːl ˈɡɹiːk tə ˌmiː]
The verdict
“it’s all Greek to me” 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) - das ist griechisch für mich, ich verstehe nur Bahnhof
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | it’s all Greek to me |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɪts ɔːl ˈɡɹiːk tə ˌmiː] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “it’s all Greek to me” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for it’s all Greek to me is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪts ɔːl ˈɡɹiːk tə ˌmiː]. 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: "das ist griechisch für mich, ich verstehe nur Bahnhof".
No misspelling variants are generated for it’s all Greek to me 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 it’s all Greek to me, spelled I-T-’-S- -A-L-L- -G-R-E-E-K- -T-O- -M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das ist griechisch für mich, ich verstehe nur Bahnhof
This word in other languages
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Using “it’s all Greek to me”
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- The one correct German spelling is I-T-’-S- -A-L-L- -G-R-E-E-K- -T-O- -M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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