teile und herrsche
The verdict
“teile und herrsche” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Prinzip, Gruppen gegeneinander auszuspielen, um gemeinsames Handel zu verhindern und sie so zu schwächen, eine Infragestellung der eigenen Machtposition zu verhindern
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teile und herrsche |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈtaɪ̯lə ʊnt ˈhɛʁʃə] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “teile und herrsche” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for teile und herrsche is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtaɪ̯lə ʊnt ˈhɛʁʃə]. 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: "Prinzip, Gruppen gegeneinander auszuspielen, um gemeinsames Handel zu verhindern und sie so zu schwächen, eine Infragestellung der eigenen Machtposition zu verhindern".
No misspelling variants are generated for teile und herrsche 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 teile und herrsche, spelled T-E-I-L-E- -U-N-D- -H-E-R-R-S-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prinzip, Gruppen gegeneinander auszuspielen, um gemeinsames Handel zu verhindern und sie so zu schwächen, eine Infragestellung der eigenen Machtposition zu verhindern
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- The one correct German spelling is T-E-I-L-E- -U-N-D- -H-E-R-R-S-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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