plåster på såren

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The verdict

“plåster på såren” 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
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ein kleiner Trost oder eine Kompensation für Misserfolg, Pech oder Unbehagen; Wiedergutmachung; Trostpflaster; eine Behandlung oder ein Geschenk, das dafür gedacht ist, durchgemachte Mühsal oder er...

Key facts for plåster på såren
PropertyValue
Headwordplåster på såren
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “plåster på såren” sits in German frequency

plåster på såren falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for plåster på såren is 16 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: "ein kleiner Trost oder eine Kompensation für Misserfolg, Pech oder Unbehagen; Wiedergutmachung; Trostpflaster; eine Behandlung oder ein Geschenk, das dafür gedacht ist, durchgemachte Mühsal oder er...".

No misspelling variants are generated for plåster på såren 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 plåster på såren, spelled P-L-Å-S-T-E-R- -P-Å- -S-Å-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ein kleiner Trost oder eine Kompensation für Misserfolg, Pech oder Unbehagen; Wiedergutmachung; Trostpflaster; eine Behandlung oder ein Geschenk, das dafür gedacht ist, durchgemachte Mühsal oder erlittenes Unrecht wieder gut zu machen; „Pflaster auf die Wunden“

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "plåster på såren"?
"plåster på såren" is spelled P-L-Å-S-T-E-R- -P-Å- -S-Å-R-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "plåster på såren" mean?
As a phrase, "plåster på såren" means: ein kleiner Trost oder eine Kompensation für Misserfolg, Pech oder Unbehagen; Wiedergutmachung; Trostpflaster; eine Behandlung oder ein Geschenk, das dafür gedacht ist, durchgemachte Mühsal oder er...
How do you pronounce "plåster på såren"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "plåster på såren" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “plåster på såren”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is P-L-Å-S-T-E-R- -P-Å- -S-Å-R-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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