lieber den Magen verrenken als dem Wirt was schenken

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for lieber den Magen verrenken als dem Wirt was schenken is 52 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈliːbɐ deːn ˈmaːɡn̩ fɛɐ̯ˈʁɛŋkn̩ als deːm ˈvɪʁt vas ˈʃɛŋkn̩]. 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: "vom Essen nichts zurückgehen lassen (da es ja bezahlt wurde)".

No misspelling variants are generated for lieber den Magen verrenken als dem Wirt was schenken 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 lieber den Magen verrenken als dem Wirt was schenken, spelled L-I-E-B-E-R- -D-E-N- -M-A-G-E-N- -V-E-R-R-E-N-K-E-N- -A-L-S- -D-E-M- -W-I-R-T- -W-A-S- -S-C-H-E-N-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.