nachts sind alle Katzen grau

/[naxt͡s zɪnt ˈalə ˈkat͡sn̩ ɡʁaʊ̯]/ phrase

Letters

28 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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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].

Key facts for nachts sind alle Katzen grau
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Headwordnachts sind alle Katzen grau
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[naxt͡s zɪnt ˈalə ˈkat͡sn̩ ɡʁaʊ̯]
Letters28
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

nachts sind alle Katzen grau 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 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

  1. 1
    in der Dunkelheit sind äußerliche Unterschiede nicht zu erkennen und spielen daher keine Rolle

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nachts sind alle Katzen grau"?
"nachts sind alle Katzen grau" is 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. The IPA pronunciation is [naxt͡s zɪnt ˈalə ˈkat͡sn̩ ɡʁaʊ̯].
What does "nachts sind alle Katzen grau" mean?
As a phrase, "nachts sind alle Katzen grau" means: in der Dunkelheit sind äußerliche Unterschiede nicht zu erkennen und spielen daher keine Rolle
How do you pronounce "nachts sind alle Katzen grau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nachts sind alle Katzen grau" is [naxt͡s zɪnt ˈalə ˈkat͡sn̩ ɡʁaʊ̯]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nachts sind alle Katzen grau" come from?
"nachts sind alle Katzen grau" 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.