wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen
The verdict
“wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen” 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
- 29
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Wenn etwas angefangen wurde, muss es auch fortgeführt werden – auch dann, wenn dabei Schwierigkeiten auftreten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [veːɐ̯ aː zaːkt mʊs aʊ̯x beː ˈzaːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen is 29 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [veːɐ̯ aː zaːkt mʊs aʊ̯x beː ˈzaːɡn̩]. 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 angefangen wurde, muss es auch fortgeführt werden – auch dann, wenn dabei Schwierigkeiten auftreten.".
No misspelling variants are generated for wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen 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 wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen, spelled W-E-R- -A- -S-A-G-T-,- -M-U-S-S- -A-U-C-H- -B- -S-A-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Wenn etwas angefangen wurde, muss es auch fortgeführt werden – auch dann, wenn dabei Schwierigkeiten auftreten.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-E-R- -A- -S-A-G-T-,- -M-U-S-S- -A-U-C-H- -B- -S-A-G-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [veːɐ̯ aː zaːkt mʊs aʊ̯x beː ˈzaːɡn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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