nachts sind alle Katzen grau
Letters
28 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
nachts sind alle Katzen grau is aGermanphrase. It means: in der Dunkelheit sind äußerliche Unterschiede nicht zu erkennen und spielen daher keine Rolle Pronounced [naxt͡s zɪnt ˈalə ˈkat͡sn̩ ɡʁaʊ̯].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nachts sind alle Katzen grau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [naxt͡s zɪnt ˈalə ˈkat͡sn̩ ɡʁaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for nachts sind alle Katzen grau is 28 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [naxt͡s zɪnt ˈalə ˈkat͡sn̩ ɡʁaʊ̯]. 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: "in der Dunkelheit sind äußerliche Unterschiede nicht zu erkennen und spielen daher keine Rolle".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nachts sind alle Katzen grau 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 nachts sind alle Katzen grau, spelled N-A-C-H-T-S- -S-I-N-D- -A-L-L-E- -K-A-T-Z-E-N- -G-R-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in der Dunkelheit sind äußerliche Unterschiede nicht zu erkennen und spielen daher keine Rolle
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