Öl ins Feuer gießen

/[ˌøːl ɪns ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ ˈɡiːsn̩]/ phrase

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].

Key facts for Öl ins Feuer gießen
PropertyValue
HeadwordÖl ins Feuer gießen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌøːl ɪns ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ ˈɡiːsn̩]
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Öl ins Feuer gießen 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 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

  1. 1
    etwas oder jemanden provozieren, einen schwelenden Streit oder Konflikt zum Ausbruch bringen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Öl ins Feuer gießen"?
"Öl ins Feuer gießen" is spelled Ö-L- -I-N-S- -F-E-U-E-R- -G-I-E-SS-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌøːl ɪns ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ ˈɡiːsn̩].
What does "Öl ins Feuer gießen" mean?
As a phrase, "Öl ins Feuer gießen" means: etwas oder jemanden provozieren, einen schwelenden Streit oder Konflikt zum Ausbruch bringen
How do you pronounce "Öl ins Feuer gießen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Öl ins Feuer gießen" is [ˌøːl ɪns ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ ˈɡiːsn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Öl ins Feuer gießen" come from?
"Öl ins Feuer gießen" 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.