just in time
The verdict
“just in time” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: bedarfsgerechte Anlieferung von Waren / Teilen in eine Unternehmen genau zum bestellten Zeitpunkt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | just in time |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [d͡ʒʌst ɪn ˈtaɪm] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “just in time” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for just in time is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d͡ʒʌst ɪn ˈtaɪm]. 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: "bedarfsgerechte Anlieferung von Waren / Teilen in eine Unternehmen genau zum bestellten Zeitpunkt".
No misspelling variants are generated for just in time 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 just in time, spelled J-U-S-T- -I-N- -T-I-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bedarfsgerechte Anlieferung von Waren / Teilen in eine Unternehmen genau zum bestellten Zeitpunkt
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Using “just in time”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is J-U-S-T- -I-N- -T-I-M-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d͡ʒʌst ɪn ˈtaɪm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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