saufen wie ein Loch
The verdict
“saufen wie ein Loch” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: viel Alkohol trinken
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saufen wie ein Loch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈzaʊ̯fn̩ viː aɪ̯n ˈlɔx] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “saufen wie ein Loch” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for saufen wie ein Loch is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzaʊ̯fn̩ viː aɪ̯n ˈlɔx]. 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: "viel Alkohol trinken".
No misspelling variants are generated for saufen wie ein Loch 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 saufen wie ein Loch, spelled S-A-U-F-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -L-O-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1viel Alkohol trinken
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Using “saufen wie ein Loch”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-A-U-F-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -L-O-C-H — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈzaʊ̯fn̩ viː aɪ̯n ˈlɔx] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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