auf der Hut sein
Letters
16 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
auf der Hut sein is aGermanphrase. It means: für seine eigene oder anderer Sicherheit Sorge tragen, Vorsicht walten lassen Pronounced [aʊ̯f deːɐ̯ ˈhuːt zaɪ̯n].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auf der Hut sein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aʊ̯f deːɐ̯ ˈhuːt zaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for auf der Hut sein is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aʊ̯f deːɐ̯ ˈhuːt zaɪ̯n]. 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: "für seine eigene oder anderer Sicherheit Sorge tragen, Vorsicht walten lassen".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for auf der Hut sein in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Hut sein, spelled A-U-F- -D-E-R- -H-U-T- -S-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1für seine eigene oder anderer Sicherheit Sorge tragen, Vorsicht walten lassen
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