vor die Hunde gehen

/[foːɐ̯ diː ˈhʊndə ˈɡeːən]/ phrase

Letters

19 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

vor die Hunde gehen is aGermanphrase. It means: zugrunde gehen, elend sterben Pronounced [foːɐ̯ diː ˈhʊndə ˈɡeːən].

Key facts for vor die Hunde gehen
PropertyValue
Headwordvor die Hunde gehen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[foːɐ̯ diː ˈhʊndə ˈɡeːən]
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vor die Hunde 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 vor die Hunde gehen is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [foːɐ̯ diː ˈhʊndə ˈɡeːən]. 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: "zugrunde gehen, elend sterben".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vor die Hunde 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 vor die Hunde gehen, spelled V-O-R- -D-I-E- -H-U-N-D-E- -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
    zugrunde gehen, elend sterben

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vor die Hunde gehen"?
"vor die Hunde gehen" is spelled V-O-R- -D-I-E- -H-U-N-D-E- -G-E-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [foːɐ̯ diː ˈhʊndə ˈɡeːən].
What does "vor die Hunde gehen" mean?
As a phrase, "vor die Hunde gehen" means: zugrunde gehen, elend sterben
How do you pronounce "vor die Hunde gehen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vor die Hunde gehen" is [foːɐ̯ diː ˈhʊndə ˈɡeːən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vor die Hunde gehen" come from?
"vor die Hunde 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.