Öl ins Feuer gießen
Letters
19 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Öl ins Feuer gießen is aGermanphrase. It means: etwas oder jemanden provozieren, einen schwelenden Streit oder Konflikt zum Ausbruch bringen Pronounced [ˌøːl ɪns ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ ˈɡiːsn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Öl ins Feuer gießen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌøːl ɪns ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ ˈɡiːsn̩] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Öl ins Feuer gießen is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌøːl ɪns ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ ˈɡiːsn̩]. 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 oder jemanden provozieren, einen schwelenden Streit oder Konflikt zum Ausbruch bringen".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Öl ins Feuer gießen 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 Öl ins Feuer gießen, spelled Ö-L- -I-N-S- -F-E-U-E-R- -G-I-E-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas oder jemanden provozieren, einen schwelenden Streit oder Konflikt zum Ausbruch bringen
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