alle Hände voll zu tun haben
[ˈalə ˈhɛndə fɔl t͡su ˈtuːn ˈhaːbn̩]
The verdict
“alle Hände voll zu tun haben” 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) - viel Arbeit haben, beschäftigt sein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alle Hände voll zu tun haben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈalə ˈhɛndə fɔl t͡su ˈtuːn ˈhaːbn̩] |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alle Hände voll zu tun haben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for alle Hände voll zu tun haben is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈalə ˈhɛndə fɔl t͡su ˈtuːn ˈhaːbn̩]. 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: "viel Arbeit haben, beschäftigt sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for alle Hände voll zu tun haben 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 alle Hände voll zu tun haben, spelled A-L-L-E- -H-Ä-N-D-E- -V-O-L-L- -Z-U- -T-U-N- -H-A-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1viel Arbeit haben, beschäftigt sein
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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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- The one correct German spelling is A-L-L-E- -H-Ä-N-D-E- -V-O-L-L- -Z-U- -T-U-N- -H-A-B-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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