wenn man vom Teufel spricht
Letters
27 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
wenn man vom Teufel spricht is aGermanphrase. It means: na sieh mal einer an, wer ist denn das da! Pronounced [vɛn man fɔm ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ ʃpʁɪçt].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wenn man vom Teufel spricht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [vɛn man fɔm ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ ʃpʁɪçt] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wenn man vom Teufel spricht is 27 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vɛn man fɔm ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ ʃpʁɪçt]. 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: "na sieh mal einer an, wer ist denn das da!".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for wenn man vom Teufel spricht 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 man vom Teufel spricht, spelled W-E-N-N- -M-A-N- -V-O-M- -T-E-U-F-E-L- -S-P-R-I-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1na sieh mal einer an, wer ist denn das da!
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