hals över huvud
The verdict
“hals över huvud” 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
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: äußerst übereilt, überstürzt; Hals über Kopf; ohne die Zeit für Abwägungen oder Überlegungen, in höchster Eile; holterdipolter; „Hals über Kopf“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hals över huvud |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈhals ˈøːvər hʉːvɵd] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hals över huvud” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for hals över huvud is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhals ˈøːvər hʉːvɵd]. 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: "äußerst übereilt, überstürzt; Hals über Kopf; ohne die Zeit für Abwägungen oder Überlegungen, in höchster Eile; holterdipolter; „Hals über Kopf“".
No misspelling variants are generated for hals över huvud 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 hals över huvud, spelled H-A-L-S- -Ö-V-E-R- -H-U-V-U-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1äußerst übereilt, überstürzt; Hals über Kopf; ohne die Zeit für Abwägungen oder Überlegungen, in höchster Eile; holterdipolter; „Hals über Kopf“
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Using “hals över huvud”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-L-S- -Ö-V-E-R- -H-U-V-U-D — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhals ˈøːvər hʉːvɵd] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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