von Zeit zu Zeit

/[fɔn ˈt͡saɪ̯t t͡suː ˈt͡saɪ̯t]/ adv

Letters

16 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

von Zeit zu Zeit is anGermanadv. It means: mehr oder weniger oft, gelegentlich, nicht regelmäßig Pronounced [fɔn ˈt͡saɪ̯t t͡suː ˈt͡saɪ̯t].

Key facts for von Zeit zu Zeit
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Headwordvon Zeit zu Zeit
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdv
IPA[fɔn ˈt͡saɪ̯t t͡suː ˈt͡saɪ̯t]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

von Zeit zu Zeit 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 von Zeit zu Zeit is 16 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɔn ˈt͡saɪ̯t t͡suː ˈt͡saɪ̯t]. 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: "mehr oder weniger oft, gelegentlich, nicht regelmäßig".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for von Zeit zu Zeit 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 von Zeit zu Zeit, spelled V-O-N- -Z-E-I-T- -Z-U- -Z-E-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    mehr oder weniger oft, gelegentlich, nicht regelmäßig

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "von Zeit zu Zeit"?
"von Zeit zu Zeit" is spelled V-O-N- -Z-E-I-T- -Z-U- -Z-E-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is [fɔn ˈt͡saɪ̯t t͡suː ˈt͡saɪ̯t].
What does "von Zeit zu Zeit" mean?
As an adv, "von Zeit zu Zeit" means: mehr oder weniger oft, gelegentlich, nicht regelmäßig
How do you pronounce "von Zeit zu Zeit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "von Zeit zu Zeit" is [fɔn ˈt͡saɪ̯t t͡suː ˈt͡saɪ̯t]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "von Zeit zu Zeit" come from?
"von Zeit zu Zeit" 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.