wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst is 30 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [veːɐ̯ t͡suˈʔeːɐ̯st kɔmt maːlt t͡suˈʔeːɐ̯st]. 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: "Es kann derjenige anfangen etwas zu tun, der zuerst da gewesen ist.".

No misspelling variants are generated for wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst 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 zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst, spelled W-E-R- -Z-U-E-R-S-T- -K-O-M-M-T-,- -M-A-H-L-T- -Z-U-E-R-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.