die Nerven liegen blank
[diː ˈnɛʁfn̩ ˌliːɡŋ̩ ˈblaŋk]
The verdict
“die Nerven liegen blank” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aufgrund einer angespannten Situation äußerst nervös und gereizt sein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Nerven liegen blank |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈnɛʁfn̩ ˌliːɡŋ̩ ˈblaŋk] |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “die Nerven liegen blank” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for die Nerven liegen blank is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈnɛʁfn̩ ˌliːɡŋ̩ ˈblaŋk]. 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: "aufgrund einer angespannten Situation äußerst nervös und gereizt sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for die Nerven liegen blank 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 die Nerven liegen blank, spelled D-I-E- -N-E-R-V-E-N- -L-I-E-G-E-N- -B-L-A-N-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aufgrund einer angespannten Situation äußerst nervös und gereizt sein
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- The one correct German spelling is D-I-E- -N-E-R-V-E-N- -L-I-E-G-E-N- -B-L-A-N-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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