det var rätt åt dig

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for det var rätt åt dig is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdɛːt `vɑːr ˈrɛ̝tː ˈoːt ˈdɛ̝jː]. 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: "du hast dir selbst die Schuld zu geben; das geschieht dir ganz recht, das geschah dir ganz recht; selbst Schuld!, da bist du selbst schuld, da hast du selber Schuld; „das war richtig zu dir“".

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