pfui Teufel

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for pfui Teufel is 11 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [p͡fʊɪ̯ ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩]. 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: "Ausruf des Ekels, der Abscheu, der Verachtung, der Empörung, der Missbilligung, des Missfallens und des Hohns".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pfui Teufel 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 pfui Teufel, spelled P-F-U-I- -T-E-U-F-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.