Sturm im Wasserglas
The verdict
“Sturm im Wasserglas” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (große) Aufregung (im kleinen Kreis), um eine nichtige, unbedeutende, unwichtige Sache
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sturm im Wasserglas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʊʁm ʔɪm ˈvasɐˌɡlaːs] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sturm im Wasserglas” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sturm im Wasserglas is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtʊʁm ʔɪm ˈvasɐˌɡlaːs]. 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: "(große) Aufregung (im kleinen Kreis), um eine nichtige, unbedeutende, unwichtige Sache".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sturm im Wasserglas 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 Sturm im Wasserglas, spelled S-T-U-R-M- -I-M- -W-A-S-S-E-R-G-L-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(große) Aufregung (im kleinen Kreis), um eine nichtige, unbedeutende, unwichtige Sache
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- The one correct German spelling is S-T-U-R-M- -I-M- -W-A-S-S-E-R-G-L-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃtʊʁm ʔɪm ˈvasɐˌɡlaːs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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