rauchen wie ein Schlot
The verdict
“rauchen wie ein Schlot” 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
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: starker Raucher sein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rauchen wie ein Schlot |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʁaʊ̯xn̩ viː aɪ̯n ʃloːt] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rauchen wie ein Schlot” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rauchen wie ein Schlot is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁaʊ̯xn̩ viː aɪ̯n ʃloːt]. 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: "starker Raucher sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for rauchen wie ein Schlot 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 rauchen wie ein Schlot, spelled R-A-U-C-H-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -S-C-H-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1starker Raucher sein
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-A-U-C-H-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -S-C-H-L-O-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʁaʊ̯xn̩ viː aɪ̯n ʃloːt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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