leugens hebben korte benen
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The verdict
“leugens hebben korte benen” 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
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lügen lohnt sich nicht, weil die Wahrheit irgendwann doch herauskommt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leugens hebben korte benen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leugens hebben korte benen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for leugens hebben korte benen is 26 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: "Lügen lohnt sich nicht, weil die Wahrheit irgendwann doch herauskommt".
No misspelling variants are generated for leugens hebben korte benen 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 leugens hebben korte benen, spelled L-E-U-G-E-N-S- -H-E-B-B-E-N- -K-O-R-T-E- -B-E-N-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lügen lohnt sich nicht, weil die Wahrheit irgendwann doch herauskommt
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is L-E-U-G-E-N-S- -H-E-B-B-E-N- -K-O-R-T-E- -B-E-N-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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