Schwein haben
Letters
13 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
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Schwein haben is aGermanphrase. It means: Glück haben, aus einer schlechten Lebenslage, Situation (plötzlich) in eine gute kommen; einer schlechten Lebenslage, Situation entkommen, diese umgehen Pronounced [ʃvaɪ̯n ˈhaːbn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schwein haben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ʃvaɪ̯n ˈhaːbn̩] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schwein haben is 13 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃvaɪ̯n ˈhaːbn̩]. 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: "Glück haben, aus einer schlechten Lebenslage, Situation (plötzlich) in eine gute kommen; einer schlechten Lebenslage, Situation entkommen, diese umgehen".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Schwein haben in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Schwein haben, spelled S-C-H-W-E-I-N- -H-A-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Glück haben, aus einer schlechten Lebenslage, Situation (plötzlich) in eine gute kommen; einer schlechten Lebenslage, Situation entkommen, diese umgehen
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