mit dem Feuer spielen
[mɪt deːm ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ ˈʃpiːlən]
The verdict
“mit dem Feuer spielen” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — vorsätzlich mit der Gefahr spielen, sich absichtlich einem Risiko aussetzen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mit dem Feuer spielen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [mɪt deːm ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ ˈʃpiːlən] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mit dem Feuer spielen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for mit dem Feuer spielen is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mɪt deːm ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ ˈʃpiːlən]. 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: "vorsätzlich mit der Gefahr spielen, sich absichtlich einem Risiko aussetzen".
No misspelling variants are generated for mit dem Feuer spielen 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 mit dem Feuer spielen, spelled M-I-T- -D-E-M- -F-E-U-E-R- -S-P-I-E-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1vorsätzlich mit der Gefahr spielen, sich absichtlich einem Risiko aussetzen
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- The one correct German spelling is M-I-T- -D-E-M- -F-E-U-E-R- -S-P-I-E-L-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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