Hackl im Kreuz

/[hakl ɪm kʁɔɪ̯t͡s]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Hackl im Kreuz is aGermanphrase. It means: die sprichwörtliche Axt, die einem jemand in den Rücken gehauen hat Pronounced [hakl ɪm kʁɔɪ̯t͡s].

Key facts for Hackl im Kreuz
PropertyValue
HeadwordHackl im Kreuz
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[hakl ɪm kʁɔɪ̯t͡s]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Hackl im Kreuz is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Hackl im Kreuz is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [hakl ɪm kʁɔɪ̯t͡s]. 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: "die sprichwörtliche Axt, die einem jemand in den Rücken gehauen hat".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Hackl im Kreuz in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Hackl im Kreuz, spelled H-A-C-K-L- -I-M- -K-R-E-U-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    die sprichwörtliche Axt, die einem jemand in den Rücken gehauen hat

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Hackl im Kreuz"?
"Hackl im Kreuz" is spelled H-A-C-K-L- -I-M- -K-R-E-U-Z. The IPA pronunciation is [hakl ɪm kʁɔɪ̯t͡s].
What does "Hackl im Kreuz" mean?
As a phrase, "Hackl im Kreuz" means: die sprichwörtliche Axt, die einem jemand in den Rücken gehauen hat
How do you pronounce "Hackl im Kreuz"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Hackl im Kreuz" is [hakl ɪm kʁɔɪ̯t͡s]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Hackl im Kreuz" come from?
"Hackl im Kreuz" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.