Treu und Glauben
[tʁɔɪ̯ ʊnt ˈɡlaʊ̯bn̩]
The verdict
“Treu und Glauben” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — integres Verhalten eines redlich handelnden Menschen, gegenseitiges Vertrauen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Treu und Glauben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [tʁɔɪ̯ ʊnt ˈɡlaʊ̯bn̩] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Treu und Glauben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Treu und Glauben is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tʁɔɪ̯ ʊnt ˈɡlaʊ̯bn̩]. 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: "integres Verhalten eines redlich handelnden Menschen, gegenseitiges Vertrauen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Treu und Glauben 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 Treu und Glauben, spelled T-R-E-U- -U-N-D- -G-L-A-U-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1integres Verhalten eines redlich handelnden Menschen, gegenseitiges Vertrauen
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-R-E-U- -U-N-D- -G-L-A-U-B-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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