too many cooks spoil the broth
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The verdict
“too many cooks spoil the broth” 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
- 30
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (zu) viele Köche verderben den Brei
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | too many cooks spoil the broth |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “too many cooks spoil the broth” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for too many cooks spoil the broth is 30 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "(zu) viele Köche verderben den Brei".
No misspelling variants are generated for too many cooks spoil the broth 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 too many cooks spoil the broth, spelled T-O-O- -M-A-N-Y- -C-O-O-K-S- -S-P-O-I-L- -T-H-E- -B-R-O-T-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(zu) viele Köche verderben den Brei
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is T-O-O- -M-A-N-Y- -C-O-O-K-S- -S-P-O-I-L- -T-H-E- -B-R-O-T-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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