sans phrase

/[zɑ̃ː ˈfʁaːzə]/ adv

Letters

11 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sans phrase is anGermanadv. It means: ohne Umschweife, direkt Pronounced [zɑ̃ː ˈfʁaːzə].

Key facts for sans phrase
PropertyValue
Headwordsans phrase
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdv
IPA[zɑ̃ː ˈfʁaːzə]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sans phrase is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for sans phrase is 11 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zɑ̃ː ˈfʁaːzə]. 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: "ohne Umschweife, direkt".

No misspelling variants are generated for sans phrase 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 sans phrase, spelled S-A-N-S- -P-H-R-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ohne Umschweife, direkt

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sans phrase"?
"sans phrase" is spelled S-A-N-S- -P-H-R-A-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is [zɑ̃ː ˈfʁaːzə].
What does "sans phrase" mean?
As an adv, "sans phrase" means: ohne Umschweife, direkt
How do you pronounce "sans phrase"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sans phrase" is [zɑ̃ː ˈfʁaːzə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sans phrase" come from?
"sans phrase" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.