odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas

/[ɔdˈwɔʒɨt͡ɕ t͡sɔɕ at kaˈlɛndaz ˈɡrɛkas]/ phrase

The verdict

“odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas” 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

Dominant Wiktionary sense: etwas auf einen Zeitpunkt verschieben, der niemals eintreten wird

Key facts for odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas
PropertyValue
Headwordodłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ɔdˈwɔʒɨt͡ɕ t͡sɔɕ at kaˈlɛndaz ˈɡrɛkas]
Letters31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas” sits in German frequency

odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas is 31 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɔdˈwɔʒɨt͡ɕ t͡sɔɕ at kaˈlɛndaz ˈɡrɛkas]. 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: "etwas auf einen Zeitpunkt verschieben, der niemals eintreten wird".

No misspelling variants are generated for odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas 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 odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas, spelled O-D-Ł-O-Ż-Y-Ć- -C-O-Ś- -A-D- -K-A-L-E-N-D-A-S- -G-R-A-E-C-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    etwas auf einen Zeitpunkt verschieben, der niemals eintreten wird

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas"?
"odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas" is spelled O-D-Ł-O-Ż-Y-Ć- -C-O-Ś- -A-D- -K-A-L-E-N-D-A-S- -G-R-A-E-C-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ɔdˈwɔʒɨt͡ɕ t͡sɔɕ at kaˈlɛndaz ˈɡrɛkas].
What does "odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas" mean?
As a phrase, "odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas" means: etwas auf einen Zeitpunkt verschieben, der niemals eintreten wird
How do you pronounce "odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas" is [ɔdˈwɔʒɨt͡ɕ t͡sɔɕ at kaˈlɛndaz ˈɡrɛkas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas" come from?
"odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “odłożyć coś ad Kalendas Graecas”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is O-D-Ł-O-Ż-Y-Ć- -C-O-Ś- -A-D- -K-A-L-E-N-D-A-S- -G-R-A-E-C-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ɔdˈwɔʒɨt͡ɕ t͡sɔɕ at kaˈlɛndaz ˈɡrɛkas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.