Hand aufs Herz
The verdict
“Hand aufs Herz” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: nun sag/sagen Sie mal ehrlich …
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hand aufs Herz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈhant aʊ̯fs ˌhɛʁt͡s] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hand aufs Herz” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hand aufs Herz is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhant aʊ̯fs ˌhɛʁt͡s]. 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: "nun sag/sagen Sie mal ehrlich …".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hand aufs Herz 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 aufs Herz, spelled H-A-N-D- -A-U-F-S- -H-E-R-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nun sag/sagen Sie mal ehrlich …
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Using “Hand aufs Herz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-N-D- -A-U-F-S- -H-E-R-Z — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhant aʊ̯fs ˌhɛʁt͡s] (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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