das alte Lied
\das ˌaltə ˈliːt\
The verdict
“das alte Lied” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Thème, argumentation ou procédé connu depuis longtemps et suscite le rejet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das alte Lied |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \das ˌaltə ˈliːt\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “das alte Lied” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for das alte Lied is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \das ˌaltə ˈliːt\. 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: "Thème, argumentation ou procédé connu depuis longtemps et suscite le rejet.".
No misspelling variants are generated for das alte Lied in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is das alte Lied, spelled D-A-S- -A-L-T-E- -L-I-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Thème, argumentation ou procédé connu depuis longtemps et suscite le rejet.
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 “das alte Lied”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-S- -A-L-T-E- -L-I-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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