det är rätt och lagom
[ˈdɛ̝ːt ˈæːr ˈrɛ̝tː ˌɔ `lɑːɡɔm]
The verdict
“det är rätt och lagom” 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - det var rätt åt dig
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | det är rätt och lagom |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈdɛ̝ːt ˈæːr ˈrɛ̝tː ˌɔ `lɑːɡɔm] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “det är rätt och lagom” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for det är rätt och lagom is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdɛ̝ːt ˈæːr ˈrɛ̝tː ˌɔ `lɑːɡɔm]. 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: "det var rätt åt dig".
No misspelling variants are generated for det är rätt och lagom 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 det är rätt och lagom, spelled D-E-T- -Ä-R- -R-Ä-T-T- -O-C-H- -L-A-G-O-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1det var rätt åt dig
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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-E-T- -Ä-R- -R-Ä-T-T- -O-C-H- -L-A-G-O-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈdɛ̝ːt ˈæːr ˈrɛ̝tː ˌɔ `lɑːɡɔm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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