Hand voll
The verdict
“Hand voll” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine kleine Menge, die in eine hohle Hand passt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hand voll |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈhantˌfɔl] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hand voll” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Hand voll is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈhantˌfɔl]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Hand voll 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 voll, spelled H-A-N-D- -V-O-L-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine kleine Menge, die in eine hohle Hand passt
- 2eine geringe Anzahl, wenige
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Using “Hand voll”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is H-A-N-D- -V-O-L-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈhantˌfɔl] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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