keinen guten Faden an jemandem lassen
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The verdict
“keinen guten Faden an jemandem lassen” 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
- 37
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — rücksichtslose Kritik üben, jemandem nur Schlechtes nachsagen, alles gründlich schlecht reden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | keinen guten Faden an jemandem lassen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 37 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “keinen guten Faden an jemandem lassen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for keinen guten Faden an jemandem lassen is 37 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "rücksichtslose Kritik üben, jemandem nur Schlechtes nachsagen, alles gründlich schlecht reden".
No misspelling variants are generated for keinen guten Faden an jemandem lassen 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 keinen guten Faden an jemandem lassen, spelled K-E-I-N-E-N- -G-U-T-E-N- -F-A-D-E-N- -A-N- -J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -L-A-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1rücksichtslose Kritik üben, jemandem nur Schlechtes nachsagen, alles gründlich schlecht reden
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- The one correct German spelling is K-E-I-N-E-N- -G-U-T-E-N- -F-A-D-E-N- -A-N- -J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -L-A-S-S-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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