kill two birds with one stone
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The verdict
“kill two birds with one stone” 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
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — zwei Probleme oder Aufgaben mit einer einzigen Aktion erledigen; zwei Ziele mit einer Kraftanstrengung erreichen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kill two birds with one stone |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kill two birds with one stone” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for kill two birds with one stone is 29 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: "zwei Probleme oder Aufgaben mit einer einzigen Aktion erledigen; zwei Ziele mit einer Kraftanstrengung erreichen".
No misspelling variants are generated for kill two birds with one stone 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 kill two birds with one stone, spelled K-I-L-L- -T-W-O- -B-I-R-D-S- -W-I-T-H- -O-N-E- -S-T-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zwei Probleme oder Aufgaben mit einer einzigen Aktion erledigen; zwei Ziele mit einer Kraftanstrengung erreichen
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- The one correct German spelling is K-I-L-L- -T-W-O- -B-I-R-D-S- -W-I-T-H- -O-N-E- -S-T-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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