weiße Weihnachten
The verdict
“weiße Weihnachten” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Weihnachtstage, an denen Schnee liegt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | weiße Weihnachten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌvaɪ̯sə ˈvaɪ̯ˌnaxtn̩] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “weiße Weihnachten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for weiße Weihnachten is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌvaɪ̯sə ˈvaɪ̯ˌnaxtn̩]. 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: "Weihnachtstage, an denen Schnee liegt".
No misspelling variants are generated for weiße Weihnachten 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 weiße Weihnachten, spelled W-E-I-S-S-E- -W-E-I-H-N-A-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
- 1Weihnachtstage, an denen Schnee liegt
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Using “weiße Weihnachten”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-E-I-S-S-E- -W-E-I-H-N-A-C-H-T-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌvaɪ̯sə ˈvaɪ̯ˌnaxtn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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