sich zum Narren machen
The verdict
“sich zum Narren machen” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: sich so verhalten, dass man von anderen für töricht gehalten wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sich zum Narren machen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [zɪç t͡sʊm ˈnaʁən ˈmaxn̩] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sich zum Narren machen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sich zum Narren machen is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zɪç t͡sʊm ˈnaʁən ˈmaxn̩]. 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: "sich so verhalten, dass man von anderen für töricht gehalten wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for sich zum Narren machen 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 zum Narren machen, spelled S-I-C-H- -Z-U-M- -N-A-R-R-E-N- -M-A-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich so verhalten, dass man von anderen für töricht gehalten wird
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-I-C-H- -Z-U-M- -N-A-R-R-E-N- -M-A-C-H-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [zɪç t͡sʊm ˈnaʁən ˈmaxn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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