i grund och botten
Letters
18 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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Confusables
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i grund och botten is aGermanphrase. It means: in Wirklichkeit; seiner innersten und eigentlichen Natur nach; im Grunde, im Grunde genommen, eigentlich; wenn man auf den Kern der Sache sieht; über etwas, das tief im Inneren liegt, unter einer O... Pronounced [ɪ ˈɡrɵnd ˌɔ ˈbɔtːən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | i grund och botten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɪ ˈɡrɵnd ˌɔ ˈbɔtːən] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for i grund och botten is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪ ˈɡrɵnd ˌɔ ˈbɔtːən]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for i grund och botten in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 i grund och botten, spelled I- -G-R-U-N-D- -O-C-H- -B-O-T-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in Wirklichkeit; seiner innersten und eigentlichen Natur nach; im Grunde, im Grunde genommen, eigentlich; wenn man auf den Kern der Sache sieht; über etwas, das tief im Inneren liegt, unter einer Oberfläche verborgen, insbesondere auch die wahren Gründe, die man bei einer eindringenderen Untersuchung aufdecken kann; „in Grund und Boden“
- 2durch und durch, vollständig
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