jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen
Letters
35 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen is aGermanphrase. It means: jemandem versehentlich schaden, obwohl man ihm helfen wollte Pronounced [ˈjeːmandm̩ aɪ̯nən ˈbɛːʁənˌdiːnst ɛɐ̯ˈvaɪ̯zn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈjeːmandm̩ aɪ̯nən ˈbɛːʁənˌdiːnst ɛɐ̯ˈvaɪ̯zn̩] |
| Letters | 35 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen is 35 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeːmandm̩ aɪ̯nən ˈbɛːʁənˌdiːnst ɛɐ̯ˈvaɪ̯zn̩]. 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: "jemandem versehentlich schaden, obwohl man ihm helfen wollte".
No misspelling variants are generated for jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen 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 jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen, spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -E-I-N-E-N- -B-Ä-R-E-N-D-I-E-N-S-T- -E-R-W-E-I-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemandem versehentlich schaden, obwohl man ihm helfen wollte
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