nie samym chlebem człowiek żyje
[ɲɛ ˈsamɨm ˈxlɛbɛm ˈt͡ʃwɔvʲɛɡ ˈʒɨjɛ]
The verdict
“nie samym chlebem człowiek żyje” 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
- 31
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - der Mensch benötigt nicht nur Nahrung/materielle Güter, sondern auch geistige Werte; der Mensch lebt nicht von Brot allein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nie samym chlebem człowiek żyje |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɲɛ ˈsamɨm ˈxlɛbɛm ˈt͡ʃwɔvʲɛɡ ˈʒɨjɛ] |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nie samym chlebem człowiek żyje” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for nie samym chlebem człowiek żyje is 31 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɲɛ ˈsamɨm ˈxlɛbɛm ˈt͡ʃwɔvʲɛɡ ˈʒɨjɛ]. 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: "der Mensch benötigt nicht nur Nahrung/materielle Güter, sondern auch geistige Werte; der Mensch lebt nicht von Brot allein".
No misspelling variants are generated for nie samym chlebem człowiek żyje 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 nie samym chlebem człowiek żyje, spelled N-I-E- -S-A-M-Y-M- -C-H-L-E-B-E-M- -C-Z-Ł-O-W-I-E-K- -Ż-Y-J-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Mensch benötigt nicht nur Nahrung/materielle Güter, sondern auch geistige Werte; der Mensch lebt nicht von Brot allein
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is N-I-E- -S-A-M-Y-M- -C-H-L-E-B-E-M- -C-Z-Ł-O-W-I-E-K- -Ż-Y-J-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ɲɛ ˈsamɨm ˈxlɛbɛm ˈt͡ʃwɔvʲɛɡ ˈʒɨjɛ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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