wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing

/[ˈvɛs ˈbʁoːt ɪç ˈɛs dɛs ˈliːt ɪç ˈzɪŋ]/ phrase

The verdict

“wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing” 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
35
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: ich vertrete die Interessen, den Standpunkt, die Ansichten desjenigen, bei dem ich in Lohn und Brot stehe, von dem ich also wirtschaftlich abhängig bin

Key facts for wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing
PropertyValue
Headwordwes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈvɛs ˈbʁoːt ɪç ˈɛs dɛs ˈliːt ɪç ˈzɪŋ]
Letters35
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing” sits in German frequency

wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing is 35 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɛs ˈbʁoːt ɪç ˈɛs dɛs ˈliːt ɪç ˈzɪŋ]. 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: "ich vertrete die Interessen, den Standpunkt, die Ansichten desjenigen, bei dem ich in Lohn und Brot stehe, von dem ich also wirtschaftlich abhängig bin".

No misspelling variants are generated for wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing 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 wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing, spelled W-E-S- -B-R-O-T- -I-C-H- -E-S-S-,- -D-E-S- -L-I-E-D- -I-C-H- -S-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ich vertrete die Interessen, den Standpunkt, die Ansichten desjenigen, bei dem ich in Lohn und Brot stehe, von dem ich also wirtschaftlich abhängig bin

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing"?
"wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing" is spelled W-E-S- -B-R-O-T- -I-C-H- -E-S-S-,- -D-E-S- -L-I-E-D- -I-C-H- -S-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈvɛs ˈbʁoːt ɪç ˈɛs dɛs ˈliːt ɪç ˈzɪŋ].
What does "wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing" mean?
As a phrase, "wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing" means: ich vertrete die Interessen, den Standpunkt, die Ansichten desjenigen, bei dem ich in Lohn und Brot stehe, von dem ich also wirtschaftlich abhängig bin
How do you pronounce "wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing" is [ˈvɛs ˈbʁoːt ɪç ˈɛs dɛs ˈliːt ɪç ˈzɪŋ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing" come from?
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Using “wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is W-E-S- -B-R-O-T- -I-C-H- -E-S-S-,- -D-E-S- -L-I-E-D- -I-C-H- -S-I-N-G — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈvɛs ˈbʁoːt ɪç ˈɛs dɛs ˈliːt ɪç ˈzɪŋ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.