balansera på en knivsegg

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

24 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

balansera på en knivsegg is aGermanphrase. It means: auf Messers Schneide stehen, auf einer feinen Linie balancieren, in der Gefahr schweben, ein schlechtes Ende zu nehmen; in eine gefährliche Situation geraten, die böse enden kann; „auf einer Messer... Pronounced […].

Key facts for balansera på en knivsegg
PropertyValue
Headwordbalansera på en knivsegg
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

balansera på en knivsegg 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 balansera på en knivsegg is 24 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: "auf Messers Schneide stehen, auf einer feinen Linie balancieren, in der Gefahr schweben, ein schlechtes Ende zu nehmen; in eine gefährliche Situation geraten, die böse enden kann; „auf einer Messer...".

No misspelling variants are generated for balansera på en knivsegg 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 balansera på en knivsegg, spelled B-A-L-A-N-S-E-R-A- -P-Å- -E-N- -K-N-I-V-S-E-G-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    auf Messers Schneide stehen, auf einer feinen Linie balancieren, in der Gefahr schweben, ein schlechtes Ende zu nehmen; in eine gefährliche Situation geraten, die böse enden kann; „auf einer Messerschneide balancieren“

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "balansera på en knivsegg"?
"balansera på en knivsegg" is spelled B-A-L-A-N-S-E-R-A- -P-Å- -E-N- -K-N-I-V-S-E-G-G. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "balansera på en knivsegg" mean?
As a phrase, "balansera på en knivsegg" means: auf Messers Schneide stehen, auf einer feinen Linie balancieren, in der Gefahr schweben, ein schlechtes Ende zu nehmen; in eine gefährliche Situation geraten, die böse enden kann; „auf einer Messer...
How do you pronounce "balansera på en knivsegg"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "balansera på en knivsegg" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "balansera på en knivsegg" 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.