viele Köche verderben den Brei
[ˈfiːlə ˈkœçə fɛɐ̯ˈdɛʁbn̩ deːn bʁaɪ̯]
The verdict
“viele Köche verderben den Brei” 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) — wenn zu viele Menschen an derselben Sache arbeiten, wird nichts daraus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viele Köche verderben den Brei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfiːlə ˈkœçə fɛɐ̯ˈdɛʁbn̩ deːn bʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “viele Köche verderben den Brei” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for viele Köche verderben den Brei is 30 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfiːlə ˈkœçə fɛɐ̯ˈdɛʁbn̩ deːn bʁaɪ̯]. 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: "wenn zu viele Menschen an derselben Sache arbeiten, wird nichts daraus.".
No misspelling variants are generated for viele Köche verderben den Brei 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 viele Köche verderben den Brei, spelled V-I-E-L-E- -K-Ö-C-H-E- -V-E-R-D-E-R-B-E-N- -D-E-N- -B-R-E-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1wenn zu viele Menschen an derselben Sache arbeiten, wird nichts daraus.
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- The one correct German spelling is V-I-E-L-E- -K-Ö-C-H-E- -V-E-R-D-E-R-B-E-N- -D-E-N- -B-R-E-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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