make a mountain out of a molehill

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

33 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

make a mountain out of a molehill is aGermanphrase. It means: eine kleine Schwierigkeit übertrieben groß darstellen Pronounced […].

Key facts for make a mountain out of a molehill
PropertyValue
Headwordmake a mountain out of a molehill
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters33
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

make a mountain out of a molehill is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for make a mountain out of a molehill is 33 letters long, classified as aphrase, 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: "eine kleine Schwierigkeit übertrieben groß darstellen".

No misspelling variants are generated for make a mountain out of a molehill 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 make a mountain out of a molehill, spelled M-A-K-E- -A- -M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N- -O-U-T- -O-F- -A- -M-O-L-E-H-I-L-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine kleine Schwierigkeit übertrieben groß darstellen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "make a mountain out of a molehill"?
"make a mountain out of a molehill" is spelled M-A-K-E- -A- -M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N- -O-U-T- -O-F- -A- -M-O-L-E-H-I-L-L. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "make a mountain out of a molehill" mean?
As a phrase, "make a mountain out of a molehill" means: eine kleine Schwierigkeit übertrieben groß darstellen
How do you pronounce "make a mountain out of a molehill"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "make a mountain out of a molehill" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "make a mountain out of a molehill" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.