wenn es hoch kommt

/[vɛn ɛs ˈhoːx kɔmt]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

wenn es hoch kommt is aGermanphrase. It means: wenn etwas den höchsten Wert annimmt; bei extremem Ausfall Pronounced [vɛn ɛs ˈhoːx kɔmt].

Key facts for wenn es hoch kommt
PropertyValue
Headwordwenn es hoch kommt
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[vɛn ɛs ˈhoːx kɔmt]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

wenn es hoch kommt is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wenn es hoch kommt is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vɛn ɛs ˈhoːx kɔmt]. 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: "wenn etwas den höchsten Wert annimmt; bei extremem Ausfall".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for wenn es hoch kommt in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 es hoch kommt, spelled W-E-N-N- -E-S- -H-O-C-H- -K-O-M-M-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    wenn etwas den höchsten Wert annimmt; bei extremem Ausfall

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wenn es hoch kommt"?
"wenn es hoch kommt" is spelled W-E-N-N- -E-S- -H-O-C-H- -K-O-M-M-T. The IPA pronunciation is [vɛn ɛs ˈhoːx kɔmt].
What does "wenn es hoch kommt" mean?
As a phrase, "wenn es hoch kommt" means: wenn etwas den höchsten Wert annimmt; bei extremem Ausfall
How do you pronounce "wenn es hoch kommt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wenn es hoch kommt" is [vɛn ɛs ˈhoːx kɔmt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wenn es hoch kommt" come from?
"wenn es hoch kommt" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.