Jacke wie Hose sein

/[ˈjakə viː ˈhoːzə ˌzaɪ̯n]/ phrase

Letters

19 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Jacke wie Hose sein is aGermanphrase. It means: ohne Bedeutung, ohne Belang sein, keinen Unterschied machen Pronounced [ˈjakə viː ˈhoːzə ˌzaɪ̯n].

Key facts for Jacke wie Hose sein
PropertyValue
HeadwordJacke wie Hose sein
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈjakə viː ˈhoːzə ˌzaɪ̯n]
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Jacke wie Hose sein is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Jacke wie Hose sein is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjakə viː ˈhoːzə ˌzaɪ̯n]. 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: "ohne Bedeutung, ohne Belang sein, keinen Unterschied machen".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Jacke wie Hose sein in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Jacke wie Hose sein, spelled J-A-C-K-E- -W-I-E- -H-O-S-E- -S-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ohne Bedeutung, ohne Belang sein, keinen Unterschied machen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Jacke wie Hose sein"?
"Jacke wie Hose sein" is spelled J-A-C-K-E- -W-I-E- -H-O-S-E- -S-E-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈjakə viː ˈhoːzə ˌzaɪ̯n].
What does "Jacke wie Hose sein" mean?
As a phrase, "Jacke wie Hose sein" means: ohne Bedeutung, ohne Belang sein, keinen Unterschied machen
How do you pronounce "Jacke wie Hose sein"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Jacke wie Hose sein" is [ˈjakə viː ˈhoːzə ˌzaɪ̯n]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Jacke wie Hose sein" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.