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Haaresbreite.

hair's breadth; whisker (very small distance between two things)

12 characters4 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈhaːʁəsˌbʁaɪ̯tə/
  1. hair's breadth; whisker (very small distance between two things)

    colloquial · feminine
    Es hat nur eine Haaresbreite gefehlt und ich wäre vom LKW überfahren worden.
Where this word comes from

From Haar (“hair”) + -es- + Breite (“breadth”), literally “breadth of a hair”.

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