det var nära ögat

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for det var nära ögat is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdɛːt `vɑːr `næːra `øːɡat]. 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: "das war kurz davor ein großes Unglück zu werden; das wäre beinahe schief gegangen, das ist noch einmal gut ausgegangen; das war so knapp, das war haarscharf; „das war nahe am Auge“".

No misspelling variants are generated for det var nära ögat 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 var nära ögat, spelled D-E-T- -V-A-R- -N-Ä-R-A- -Ö-G-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.