handen på hjärtat
The verdict
“handen på hjärtat” 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: aufrichtig gesagt, oftmals im Zusammenhang mit einem Appell; Hand aufs Herz!; eine Ermahnung, bei der folgenden Frage die Wahrheit zu sagen; die Beteuerung, dass man aufrichtig war; „die Hand auf d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | handen på hjärtat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “handen på hjärtat” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for handen på hjärtat is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "aufrichtig gesagt, oftmals im Zusammenhang mit einem Appell; Hand aufs Herz!; eine Ermahnung, bei der folgenden Frage die Wahrheit zu sagen; die Beteuerung, dass man aufrichtig war; „die Hand auf d...".
No misspelling variants are generated for handen på hjärtat 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 handen på hjärtat, spelled H-A-N-D-E-N- -P-Å- -H-J-Ä-R-T-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aufrichtig gesagt, oftmals im Zusammenhang mit einem Appell; Hand aufs Herz!; eine Ermahnung, bei der folgenden Frage die Wahrheit zu sagen; die Beteuerung, dass man aufrichtig war; „die Hand auf das Herz“
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Using “handen på hjärtat”
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- The one correct German spelling is H-A-N-D-E-N- -P-Å- -H-J-Ä-R-T-A-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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