jemanden fürchten wie der Teufel das Weihwasser

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for jemanden fürchten wie der Teufel das Weihwasser is 47 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeːmandən ˈfʏʁçtn̩ viː deːɐ̯ ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ das ˈvaɪ̯ˌvasɐ]. 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: "jemanden sehr fürchten, vor jemandem große Angst haben".

No misspelling variants are generated for jemanden fürchten wie der Teufel das Weihwasser 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 fürchten wie der Teufel das Weihwasser, spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-N- -F-Ü-R-C-H-T-E-N- -W-I-E- -D-E-R- -T-E-U-F-E-L- -D-A-S- -W-E-I-H-W-A-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.