kdo dřív přijde, ten dřív mele

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for kdo dřív přijde, ten dřív mele is 30 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡdɔ dr̝iːf ˈpr̝̊ɪjdɛ, tɛn dr̝iːf ˈmɛlɛ]. 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: "es kann derjenige anfangen, etwas zu tun, der zuerst da gewesen ist".

No misspelling variants are generated for kdo dřív přijde, ten dřív mele 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 kdo dřív přijde, ten dřív mele, spelled K-D-O- -D-Ř-Í-V- -P-Ř-I-J-D-E-,- -T-E-N- -D-Ř-Í-V- -M-E-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.