handen på hjärtat

/[…]/ phrase

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...

Key facts for handen på hjärtat
PropertyValue
Headwordhanden på hjärtat
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “handen på hjärtat” sits in German frequency

handen på hjärtat falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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 das Herz“

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "handen på hjärtat"?
"handen på hjärtat" is spelled H-A-N-D-E-N- -P-Å- -H-J-Ä-R-T-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "handen på hjärtat" mean?
As a phrase, "handen på hjärtat" means: 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...
How do you pronounce "handen på hjärtat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "handen på hjärtat" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "handen på hjärtat" come from?
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Using “handen på hjärtat”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.