das Herz am rechten Fleck haben

/[das hɛʁt͡s am ʁɛçtn̩ ˈflɛk haːbm̩]/ phrase

The verdict

“das Herz am rechten Fleck 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
31
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: uneigennützig, hilfsbereit und nett sein, gute Absichten haben, ehrlich sein

Key facts for das Herz am rechten Fleck haben
PropertyValue
Headworddas Herz am rechten Fleck haben
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[das hɛʁt͡s am ʁɛçtn̩ ˈflɛk haːbm̩]
Letters31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “das Herz am rechten Fleck haben” sits in German frequency

das Herz am rechten Fleck haben falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for das Herz am rechten Fleck haben is 31 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [das hɛʁt͡s am ʁɛçtn̩ ˈflɛk haːbm̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for das Herz am rechten Fleck 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 das Herz am rechten Fleck haben, spelled D-A-S- -H-E-R-Z- -A-M- -R-E-C-H-T-E-N- -F-L-E-C-K- -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

  1. 1
    uneigennützig, hilfsbereit und nett sein, gute Absichten haben, ehrlich sein
  2. 2
    uneigennützig, hilfsbereit und nett sein, gute Absichten haben, ehrlich sein
  3. 3
    uneigennützig, hilfsbereit und nett sein, gute Absichten haben, ehrlich sein

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "das Herz am rechten Fleck haben"?
"das Herz am rechten Fleck haben" is spelled D-A-S- -H-E-R-Z- -A-M- -R-E-C-H-T-E-N- -F-L-E-C-K- -H-A-B-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [das hɛʁt͡s am ʁɛçtn̩ ˈflɛk haːbm̩].
What does "das Herz am rechten Fleck haben" mean?
As a phrase, "das Herz am rechten Fleck haben" means: uneigennützig, hilfsbereit und nett sein, gute Absichten haben, ehrlich sein
How do you pronounce "das Herz am rechten Fleck haben"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "das Herz am rechten Fleck haben" is [das hɛʁt͡s am ʁɛçtn̩ ˈflɛk haːbm̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "das Herz am rechten Fleck haben" come from?
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Using “das Herz am rechten Fleck haben”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is D-A-S- -H-E-R-Z- -A-M- -R-E-C-H-T-E-N- -F-L-E-C-K- -H-A-B-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [das hɛʁt͡s am ʁɛçtn̩ ˈflɛk haːbm̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.