Perlen vor die Säue werfen
The verdict
“Perlen vor die Säue werfen” 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
- 26
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: demjenigen etwas (Gutes, Edles, Schönes) bieten, der dies nicht zu schätzen weiß
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Perlen vor die Säue werfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpɛʁlən foːɐ̯ diː ˈzɔɪ̯ə ˈvɛʁfn̩] |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Perlen vor die Säue werfen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Perlen vor die Säue werfen is 26 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpɛʁlən foːɐ̯ diː ˈzɔɪ̯ə ˈvɛʁfn̩]. 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: "demjenigen etwas (Gutes, Edles, Schönes) bieten, der dies nicht zu schätzen weiß".
No misspelling variants are generated for Perlen vor die Säue werfen 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 Perlen vor die Säue werfen, spelled P-E-R-L-E-N- -V-O-R- -D-I-E- -S-Ä-U-E- -W-E-R-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1demjenigen etwas (Gutes, Edles, Schönes) bieten, der dies nicht zu schätzen weiß
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Using “Perlen vor die Säue werfen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-E-R-L-E-N- -V-O-R- -D-I-E- -S-Ä-U-E- -W-E-R-F-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpɛʁlən foːɐ̯ diː ˈzɔɪ̯ə ˈvɛʁfn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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