on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs
The verdict
“on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs” 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
- 46
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: bei der Umsetzung von an sich Nützlichem, müssen Nachteile in Kauf genommen werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 46 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs is 46 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "bei der Umsetzung von an sich Nützlichem, müssen Nachteile in Kauf genommen werden".
No misspelling variants are generated for on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs 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 on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs, spelled O-N- -N-E- -F-A-I-T- -P-A-S- -D-’-O-M-E-L-E-T-T-E- -S-A-N-S- -C-A-S-S-E-R- -D-E-S- -Œ-U-F-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bei der Umsetzung von an sich Nützlichem, müssen Nachteile in Kauf genommen werden
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- The one correct German spelling is O-N- -N-E- -F-A-I-T- -P-A-S- -D-’-O-M-E-L-E-T-T-E- -S-A-N-S- -C-A-S-S-E-R- -D-E-S- -Œ-U-F-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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