ein heißes Eisen anfassen
Letters
25 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ein heißes Eisen anfassen is aGermanphrase. It means: ein heikles, brisantes Thema ansprechen Pronounced [aɪ̯n ˈhaɪ̯səs ˈaɪ̯zn̩ ˈanˌfasn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ein heißes Eisen anfassen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aɪ̯n ˈhaɪ̯səs ˈaɪ̯zn̩ ˈanˌfasn̩] |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for ein heißes Eisen anfassen is 25 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɪ̯n ˈhaɪ̯səs ˈaɪ̯zn̩ ˈanˌfasn̩]. 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: "ein heikles, brisantes Thema ansprechen".
No misspelling variants are generated for ein heißes Eisen anfassen 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 ein heißes Eisen anfassen, spelled E-I-N- -H-E-I-S-S-E-S- -E-I-S-E-N- -A-N-F-A-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein heikles, brisantes Thema ansprechen
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