schlafen wie ein Stein
[ˈʃlaːfn̩ viː aɪ̯n ʃtaɪ̯n]
The verdict
“schlafen wie ein Stein” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — tief und fest schlafen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schlafen wie ein Stein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʃlaːfn̩ viː aɪ̯n ʃtaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schlafen wie ein Stein” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schlafen wie ein Stein is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃlaːfn̩ viː aɪ̯n ʃtaɪ̯n]. 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: "tief und fest schlafen".
No misspelling variants are generated for schlafen wie ein Stein 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 schlafen wie ein Stein, spelled S-C-H-L-A-F-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -S-T-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1tief und fest schlafen
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-L-A-F-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -S-T-E-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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