Wasser auf jemandes Mühle leiten
The verdict
“Wasser auf jemandes Mühle leiten” 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
- 32
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: zu jemandes Vorteil arbeiten, auf jemandes Vorteil bedacht sein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wasser auf jemandes Mühle leiten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈvasɐ ʔaʊ̯f ˌjeːmandəs ˈmyːlə ˌlaɪ̯tn̩] |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wasser auf jemandes Mühle leiten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wasser auf jemandes Mühle leiten is 32 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvasɐ ʔaʊ̯f ˌjeːmandəs ˈmyːlə ˌlaɪ̯tn̩]. 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: "zu jemandes Vorteil arbeiten, auf jemandes Vorteil bedacht sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for Wasser auf jemandes Mühle leiten 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 Wasser auf jemandes Mühle leiten, spelled W-A-S-S-E-R- -A-U-F- -J-E-M-A-N-D-E-S- -M-Ü-H-L-E- -L-E-I-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zu jemandes Vorteil arbeiten, auf jemandes Vorteil bedacht sein
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- The one correct German spelling is W-A-S-S-E-R- -A-U-F- -J-E-M-A-N-D-E-S- -M-Ü-H-L-E- -L-E-I-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈvasɐ ʔaʊ̯f ˌjeːmandəs ˈmyːlə ˌlaɪ̯tn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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