wenn man vom Teufel spricht, kommt er

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wenn man vom Teufel spricht, kommt er is 37 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vɛn man fɔm ˈtɔɪ̯fl̩ ʃpʁɪçt ˈkɔmt eːɐ̯]. 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: "scherzhafte Umschreibung für die Situation, dass man über eine bestimmte Person spricht und diese genau in diesem Moment dann bei den Sprechenden erscheint".

No misspelling variants are generated for wenn man vom Teufel spricht, kommt er 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 man vom Teufel spricht, kommt er, spelled W-E-N-N- -M-A-N- -V-O-M- -T-E-U-F-E-L- -S-P-R-I-C-H-T-,- -K-O-M-M-T- -E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.