sich auf seinen Lorbeeren ausruhen

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for sich auf seinen Lorbeeren ausruhen is 34 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zɪç aʊ̯f zaɪ̯nən ˈloɐ̯beːʁən (ˈlɔʁbeːʁən) ˈaʊ̯sʁuːən]. 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: "nach einem Erfolg nicht auf weitere Erfolge hinarbeiten".

No misspelling variants are generated for sich auf seinen Lorbeeren ausruhen 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 sich auf seinen Lorbeeren ausruhen, spelled S-I-C-H- -A-U-F- -S-E-I-N-E-N- -L-O-R-B-E-E-R-E-N- -A-U-S-R-U-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.