Schwein haben

/[ʃvaɪ̯n ˈhaːbn̩]/ phrase

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13 characters

Language

German

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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].

Key facts for Schwein haben
PropertyValue
HeadwordSchwein haben
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ʃvaɪ̯n ˈhaːbn̩]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Glück haben, aus einer schlechten Lebenslage, Situation (plötzlich) in eine gute kommen; einer schlechten Lebenslage, Situation entkommen, diese umgehen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Schwein haben"?
"Schwein haben" is spelled S-C-H-W-E-I-N- -H-A-B-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃvaɪ̯n ˈhaːbn̩].
What does "Schwein haben" mean?
As a phrase, "Schwein haben" means: Glück haben, aus einer schlechten Lebenslage, Situation (plötzlich) in eine gute kommen; einer schlechten Lebenslage, Situation entkommen, diese umgehen
How do you pronounce "Schwein haben"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Schwein haben" is [ʃvaɪ̯n ˈhaːbn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Schwein haben" come from?
"Schwein haben" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.