rote Linie
The verdict
“rote Linie” 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
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine Handlung/Position von einer Person/Gruppe, die von einer anderen Person/Gruppe nicht (mehr) toleriert wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rote Linie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌʁoːtə ˈliːni̯ə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rote Linie” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rote Linie is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʁoːtə ˈliːni̯ə]. 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: "eine Handlung/Position von einer Person/Gruppe, die von einer anderen Person/Gruppe nicht (mehr) toleriert wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for rote Linie 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 rote Linie, spelled R-O-T-E- -L-I-N-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Handlung/Position von einer Person/Gruppe, die von einer anderen Person/Gruppe nicht (mehr) toleriert wird
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Using “rote Linie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-O-T-E- -L-I-N-I-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌʁoːtə ˈliːni̯ə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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