mehr schlecht als recht

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for mehr schlecht als recht is 23 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meːɐ̯ ˈʃlɛçt ʔals ˈʁɛçt]. 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: "den Umständen, Zuständen, Voraussetzungen oder dergleichen entsprechend (leider) nicht sehr gut".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mehr schlecht als recht 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 mehr schlecht als recht, spelled M-E-H-R- -S-C-H-L-E-C-H-T- -A-L-S- -R-E-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.