über den Jordan gehen

/[ˌyːbɐ deːn ˈjɔʁdan ˌɡeːən]/ phrase

Letters

21 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

über den Jordan gehen is aGermanphrase. It means: euphemistisch Pronounced [ˌyːbɐ deːn ˈjɔʁdan ˌɡeːən].

Key facts for über den Jordan gehen
PropertyValue
Headwordüber den Jordan gehen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌyːbɐ deːn ˈjɔʁdan ˌɡeːən]
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

über den Jordan gehen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for über den Jordan gehen is 21 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌyːbɐ deːn ˈjɔʁdan ˌɡeːən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for über den Jordan gehen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 über den Jordan gehen, spelled Ü-B-E-R- -D-E-N- -J-O-R-D-A-N- -G-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    euphemistisch
  2. 2
    sein Leben verlieren, ums Leben kommen; sterben
  3. 3
    umgangssprachlich
  4. 4
    sich entfernen und aus dem Blickfeld geraten; etwas selbstverschuldet oder durch ungünstige Umstände nicht halten oder bewahren können
  5. 5
    schadhaft werden, stückweise auseinanderfallen; (wirtschaftlich) zugrunde gehen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "über den Jordan gehen"?
"über den Jordan gehen" is spelled Ü-B-E-R- -D-E-N- -J-O-R-D-A-N- -G-E-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌyːbɐ deːn ˈjɔʁdan ˌɡeːən].
What does "über den Jordan gehen" mean?
As a phrase, "über den Jordan gehen" means: euphemistisch
How do you pronounce "über den Jordan gehen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "über den Jordan gehen" is [ˌyːbɐ deːn ˈjɔʁdan ˌɡeːən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "über den Jordan gehen" come from?
"über den Jordan gehen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.