wenn alle Stricke reißen

/[…]/ phrase

The verdict

“wenn alle Stricke reißen” 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
24
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: im schlimmsten Fall

Key facts for wenn alle Stricke reißen
PropertyValue
Headwordwenn alle Stricke reißen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “wenn alle Stricke reißen” sits in German frequency

wenn alle Stricke reißen falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wenn alle Stricke reißen is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "im schlimmsten Fall".

No misspelling variants are generated for wenn alle Stricke reißen 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 wenn alle Stricke reißen, spelled W-E-N-N- -A-L-L-E- -S-T-R-I-C-K-E- -R-E-I-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    im schlimmsten Fall

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wenn alle Stricke reißen"?
"wenn alle Stricke reißen" is spelled W-E-N-N- -A-L-L-E- -S-T-R-I-C-K-E- -R-E-I-SS-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "wenn alle Stricke reißen" mean?
As a phrase, "wenn alle Stricke reißen" means: im schlimmsten Fall
How do you pronounce "wenn alle Stricke reißen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wenn alle Stricke reißen" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “wenn alle Stricke reißen”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is W-E-N-N- -A-L-L-E- -S-T-R-I-C-K-E- -R-E-I-S-S-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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