Hammer und Sichel
The verdict
“Hammer und Sichel” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Symbol des Kommunismus; der Hammer steht für die Industrie und die Sichel für die Landwirtschaft
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hammer und Sichel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈhamɐ ʊnt ˈzɪçl̩] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hammer und Sichel” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hammer und Sichel is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhamɐ ʊnt ˈzɪçl̩]. 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: "Symbol des Kommunismus; der Hammer steht für die Industrie und die Sichel für die Landwirtschaft".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hammer und Sichel 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 Hammer und Sichel, spelled H-A-M-M-E-R- -U-N-D- -S-I-C-H-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Symbol des Kommunismus; der Hammer steht für die Industrie und die Sichel für die Landwirtschaft
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- The one correct German spelling is H-A-M-M-E-R- -U-N-D- -S-I-C-H-E-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhamɐ ʊnt ˈzɪçl̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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