wer einmal lügt, dem glaubt man nicht, und wenn er auch die Wahrheit spricht

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wer einmal lügt, dem glaubt man nicht, und wenn er auch die Wahrheit spricht is 76 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [veːɐ̯ ˈaɪ̯nmaːl lyːkt deːm ˈɡlaʊ̯pt man nɪçt ʊnt ˈvɛn eːɐ̯ aʊ̯x diː ˈvaːɐ̯haɪ̯t 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: "eine Lüge kann die Glaubwürdigkeit dauerhaft zerstören".

No misspelling variants are generated for wer einmal lügt, dem glaubt man nicht, und wenn er auch die Wahrheit spricht 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 einmal lügt, dem glaubt man nicht, und wenn er auch die Wahrheit spricht, spelled W-E-R- -E-I-N-M-A-L- -L-Ü-G-T-,- -D-E-M- -G-L-A-U-B-T- -M-A-N- -N-I-C-H-T-,- -U-N-D- -W-E-N-N- -E-R- -A-U-C-H- -D-I-E- -W-A-H-R-H-E-I-T- -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.