umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe

/[ʊmˈheːɐ̯ˌɡeːən viː aɪ̯n ˈbʁʏləndɐ ˈløːvə]/ phrase

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Language

German

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umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe is aGermanphrase. It means: auf etwas mit Geschrei und Gebrüll oder sonst mit großer Lautstärke reagieren Pronounced [ʊmˈheːɐ̯ˌɡeːən viː aɪ̯n ˈbʁʏləndɐ ˈløːvə].

Key facts for umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe
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Headwordumhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ʊmˈheːɐ̯ˌɡeːən viː aɪ̯n ˈbʁʏləndɐ ˈløːvə]
Letters34
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe is 34 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʊmˈheːɐ̯ˌɡeːən viː aɪ̯n ˈbʁʏləndɐ ˈløːvə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe 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 umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe, spelled U-M-H-E-R-G-E-H-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -B-R-Ü-L-L-E-N-D-E-R- -L-Ö-W-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    auf etwas mit Geschrei und Gebrüll oder sonst mit großer Lautstärke reagieren
  2. 2
    zu viel Aufhebens um etwas machen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe"?
"umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe" is spelled U-M-H-E-R-G-E-H-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -B-R-Ü-L-L-E-N-D-E-R- -L-Ö-W-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ʊmˈheːɐ̯ˌɡeːən viː aɪ̯n ˈbʁʏləndɐ ˈløːvə].
What does "umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe" mean?
As a phrase, "umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe" means: auf etwas mit Geschrei und Gebrüll oder sonst mit großer Lautstärke reagieren
How do you pronounce "umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe" is [ʊmˈheːɐ̯ˌɡeːən viː aɪ̯n ˈbʁʏləndɐ ˈløːvə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "umhergehen wie ein brüllender Löwe" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.