Nebelkerzen werfen
[ˈneːbl̩ˌkɛʁt͡sn̩ ˈvɛʁfn̩]
The verdict
“Nebelkerzen werfen” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — von etwas ablenken, etwas verschleiern; jemanden in die Irre führen, Verwirrung stiften
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Nebelkerzen werfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈneːbl̩ˌkɛʁt͡sn̩ ˈvɛʁfn̩] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Nebelkerzen werfen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Nebelkerzen werfen is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈneːbl̩ˌkɛʁt͡sn̩ ˈvɛʁfn̩]. 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: "von etwas ablenken, etwas verschleiern; jemanden in die Irre führen, Verwirrung stiften".
No misspelling variants are generated for Nebelkerzen werfen 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 Nebelkerzen werfen, spelled N-E-B-E-L-K-E-R-Z-E-N- -W-E-R-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1von etwas ablenken, etwas verschleiern; jemanden in die Irre führen, Verwirrung stiften
This word in other languages
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- The one correct German spelling is N-E-B-E-L-K-E-R-Z-E-N- -W-E-R-F-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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