jemanden an die Wand spielen
Letters
28 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
jemanden an die Wand spielen is aGermanphrase. It means: drückend überlegen sein; viele Tore schießen, ohne dass der Gegner mithalten kann; jemanden schnell in die Defensive drängen und matt setzen Pronounced [ˈjeːmandn̩ an diː ˈvant ˈʃpiːlən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jemanden an die Wand spielen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈjeːmandn̩ an diː ˈvant ˈʃpiːlən] |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for jemanden an die Wand spielen is 28 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeːmandn̩ an diː ˈvant ˈʃpiːlən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for jemanden an die Wand spielen 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 jemanden an die Wand spielen, spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-N- -A-N- -D-I-E- -W-A-N-D- -S-P-I-E-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1drückend überlegen sein; viele Tore schießen, ohne dass der Gegner mithalten kann; jemanden schnell in die Defensive drängen und matt setzen
- 2auf einer Bühne oder auf der Leinwand sehr viel präsenter sein als die Schauspielkollegen/Schauspielkolleginnen
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