auf der Hand liegen

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

19 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

auf der Hand liegen is aGermanphrase. It means: offensichtlich sein Pronounced […].

Key facts for auf der Hand liegen
PropertyValue
Headwordauf der Hand liegen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

auf der Hand liegen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for auf der Hand liegen is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "offensichtlich sein".

No misspelling variants are generated for auf der Hand liegen 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 auf der Hand liegen, spelled A-U-F- -D-E-R- -H-A-N-D- -L-I-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    offensichtlich sein

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "auf der Hand liegen"?
"auf der Hand liegen" is spelled A-U-F- -D-E-R- -H-A-N-D- -L-I-E-G-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "auf der Hand liegen" mean?
As a phrase, "auf der Hand liegen" means: offensichtlich sein
How do you pronounce "auf der Hand liegen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "auf der Hand liegen" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "auf der Hand liegen" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.