Hand an sich legen
The verdict
“Hand an sich legen” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: sich selbst töten, sich umbringen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hand an sich legen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [hant an zɪç ˈleːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hand an sich legen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hand an sich legen is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [hant an zɪç ˈleːɡn̩]. 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: "sich selbst töten, sich umbringen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hand an sich legen 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 Hand an sich legen, spelled H-A-N-D- -A-N- -S-I-C-H- -L-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich selbst töten, sich umbringen
Antonyms
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Using “Hand an sich legen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-N-D- -A-N- -S-I-C-H- -L-E-G-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [hant an zɪç ˈleːɡn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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