wenn alle Stricke reißen
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
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wenn alle Stricke reißen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wenn alle Stricke reißen” sits in German frequency
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
- 1im schlimmsten Fall
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- 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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