eine Hand wäscht die andere
\ˈʔaɪ̯nə ˌhant ˌvɛʃt diː ˈʔandəʀə\
The verdict
“eine Hand wäscht die andere” 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
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Un service en vaut un autre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eine Hand wäscht die andere |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ˈʔaɪ̯nə ˌhant ˌvɛʃt diː ˈʔandəʀə\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eine Hand wäscht die andere” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for eine Hand wäscht die andere is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈʔaɪ̯nə ˌhant ˌvɛʃt diː ˈʔandəʀə\. 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: "Un service en vaut un autre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for eine Hand wäscht die andere 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 eine Hand wäscht die andere, spelled E-I-N-E- -H-A-N-D- -W-Ä-S-C-H-T- -D-I-E- -A-N-D-E-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un service en vaut un autre.
Synonyms
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 “eine Hand wäscht die andere”
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- The one correct French spelling is E-I-N-E- -H-A-N-D- -W-Ä-S-C-H-T- -D-I-E- -A-N-D-E-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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