wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer
[voː ˈʁaʊ̯x ʔɪst || ʔɪst ʔaʊ̯x ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ]
The verdict
“wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer” 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
- 28
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — etwas kann auf seine Ursache zurückgeführt werden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [voː ˈʁaʊ̯x ʔɪst || ʔɪst ʔaʊ̯x ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ] |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [voː ˈʁaʊ̯x ʔɪst || ʔɪst ʔaʊ̯x ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ]. 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: "etwas kann auf seine Ursache zurückgeführt werden".
No misspelling variants are generated for wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer 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 wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer, spelled W-O- -R-A-U-C-H- -I-S-T-,- -I-S-T- -A-U-C-H- -F-E-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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- 1etwas kann auf seine Ursache zurückgeführt werden
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-O- -R-A-U-C-H- -I-S-T-,- -I-S-T- -A-U-C-H- -F-E-U-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [voː ˈʁaʊ̯x ʔɪst || ʔɪst ʔaʊ̯x ˈfɔɪ̯ɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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