man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist

/[man mʊs das ˈaɪ̯zn̩ ˈʃmiːdn̩ zoˈlaŋə ɛs haɪ̯s ɪst]/ phrase

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49 characters

Language

German

word origin

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man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist is aGermanphrase. It means: man sollte schnell handeln, denn sonst könnte es zu spät sein Pronounced [man mʊs das ˈaɪ̯zn̩ ˈʃmiːdn̩ zoˈlaŋə ɛs haɪ̯s ɪst].

Key facts for man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist
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Headwordman muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[man mʊs das ˈaɪ̯zn̩ ˈʃmiːdn̩ zoˈlaŋə ɛs haɪ̯s ɪst]
Letters49
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist is 49 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [man mʊs das ˈaɪ̯zn̩ ˈʃmiːdn̩ zoˈlaŋə ɛs haɪ̯s ɪst]. 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: "man sollte schnell handeln, denn sonst könnte es zu spät sein".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist, spelled M-A-N- -M-U-S-S- -D-A-S- -E-I-S-E-N- -S-C-H-M-I-E-D-E-N-,- -S-O-L-A-N-G-E- -E-S- -H-E-I-S-S- -I-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    man sollte schnell handeln, denn sonst könnte es zu spät sein

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist"?
"man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist" is spelled M-A-N- -M-U-S-S- -D-A-S- -E-I-S-E-N- -S-C-H-M-I-E-D-E-N-,- -S-O-L-A-N-G-E- -E-S- -H-E-I-SS- -I-S-T. The IPA pronunciation is [man mʊs das ˈaɪ̯zn̩ ˈʃmiːdn̩ zoˈlaŋə ɛs haɪ̯s ɪst].
What does "man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist" mean?
As a phrase, "man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist" means: man sollte schnell handeln, denn sonst könnte es zu spät sein
How do you pronounce "man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist" is [man mʊs das ˈaɪ̯zn̩ ˈʃmiːdn̩ zoˈlaŋə ɛs haɪ̯s ɪst]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist" come from?
"man muss das Eisen schmieden, solange es heiß ist" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.