in der Luft liegen

/[ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈlʊft ˈliːɡn̩]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

in der Luft liegen is aGermanphrase. It means: etwas riecht, duftet, stinkt Pronounced [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈlʊft ˈliːɡn̩].

Key facts for in der Luft liegen
PropertyValue
Headwordin der Luft liegen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈlʊft ˈliːɡn̩]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

in der Luft liegen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for in der Luft liegen is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈlʊft ˈliːɡn̩]. 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 in der Luft liegen 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 in der Luft liegen, spelled I-N- -D-E-R- -L-U-F-T- -L-I-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    etwas riecht, duftet, stinkt
  2. 2
    erwarten/wahrnehmen/spüren, dass etwas (meist Negatives) passieren wird; Gefühl, dass unter vielen Menschen verbreitet ist

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "in der Luft liegen"?
"in der Luft liegen" is spelled I-N- -D-E-R- -L-U-F-T- -L-I-E-G-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈlʊft ˈliːɡn̩].
What does "in der Luft liegen" mean?
As a phrase, "in der Luft liegen" means: etwas riecht, duftet, stinkt
How do you pronounce "in der Luft liegen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "in der Luft liegen" is [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈlʊft ˈliːɡn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "in der Luft liegen" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.