was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht
The verdict
“was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht” 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
- 42
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: jemand ist Neuem gegenüber nicht aufgeschlossen und bevorzugt das, mit dem er vertraut ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [vas deːɐ̯ ˈbaʊ̯ɐ nɪçt kɛnt fʁɪst eːɐ̯ nɪçt] |
| Letters | 42 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht is 42 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vas deːɐ̯ ˈbaʊ̯ɐ nɪçt kɛnt fʁɪst eːɐ̯ nɪçt]. 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: "jemand ist Neuem gegenüber nicht aufgeschlossen und bevorzugt das, mit dem er vertraut ist".
No misspelling variants are generated for was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht 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 was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht, spelled W-A-S- -D-E-R- -B-A-U-E-R- -N-I-C-H-T- -K-E-N-N-T-,- -F-R-I-S-S-T- -E-R- -N-I-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemand ist Neuem gegenüber nicht aufgeschlossen und bevorzugt das, mit dem er vertraut ist
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- The one correct German spelling is W-A-S- -D-E-R- -B-A-U-E-R- -N-I-C-H-T- -K-E-N-N-T-,- -F-R-I-S-S-T- -E-R- -N-I-C-H-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [vas deːɐ̯ ˈbaʊ̯ɐ nɪçt kɛnt fʁɪst eːɐ̯ nɪçt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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