weder Tod noch Teufel fürchten
[ˈveːdɐ ˈtoːt nɔx ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ ˈfʏʁçtn̩]
The verdict
“weder Tod noch Teufel fürchten” 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) — vor nichts Angst haben, furchtlos sein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | weder Tod noch Teufel fürchten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈveːdɐ ˈtoːt nɔx ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ ˈfʏʁçtn̩] |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “weder Tod noch Teufel fürchten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for weder Tod noch Teufel fürchten is 30 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈveːdɐ ˈtoːt nɔx ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ ˈfʏʁçtn̩]. 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: "vor nichts Angst haben, furchtlos sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for weder Tod noch Teufel fürchten 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 weder Tod noch Teufel fürchten, spelled W-E-D-E-R- -T-O-D- -N-O-C-H- -T-E-U-F-E-L- -F-Ü-R-C-H-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1vor nichts Angst haben, furchtlos sein
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is W-E-D-E-R- -T-O-D- -N-O-C-H- -T-E-U-F-E-L- -F-Ü-R-C-H-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈveːdɐ ˈtoːt nɔx ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ ˈfʏʁçtn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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