stehen bleiben
The verdict
“stehen bleiben” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: zum Stillstand kommen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stehen bleiben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʃteːən ˌblaɪ̯bn̩] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stehen bleiben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for stehen bleiben is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃteːən ˌblaɪ̯bn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for stehen bleiben 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 stehen bleiben, spelled S-T-E-H-E-N- -B-L-E-I-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zum Stillstand kommen
- 2im Stillstand verharren
- 3im ursprünglichen Zustand erhalten bleiben
- 4(in einer vertikalen Position) zurückgelassen werden
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-E-H-E-N- -B-L-E-I-B-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃteːən ˌblaɪ̯bn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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