in der Schmiere sitzen

/[ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈʃmiːʁə ˈzɪt͡sn̩]/ phrase

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German

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in der Schmiere sitzen is aGermanphrase. It means: sich in einer misslichen Lage befinden Pronounced [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈʃmiːʁə ˈzɪt͡sn̩].

Key facts for in der Schmiere sitzen
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Headwordin der Schmiere sitzen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈʃmiːʁə ˈzɪt͡sn̩]
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for in der Schmiere sitzen is 22 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈʃmiːʁə ˈzɪt͡sn̩]. 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: "sich in einer misslichen Lage befinden".

No misspelling variants are generated for in der Schmiere sitzen 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 in der Schmiere sitzen, spelled I-N- -D-E-R- -S-C-H-M-I-E-R-E- -S-I-T-Z-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sich in einer misslichen Lage befinden

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How do you spell "in der Schmiere sitzen"?
"in der Schmiere sitzen" is spelled I-N- -D-E-R- -S-C-H-M-I-E-R-E- -S-I-T-Z-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈʃmiːʁə ˈzɪt͡sn̩].
What does "in der Schmiere sitzen" mean?
As a phrase, "in der Schmiere sitzen" means: sich in einer misslichen Lage befinden
How do you pronounce "in der Schmiere sitzen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "in der Schmiere sitzen" is [ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈʃmiːʁə ˈzɪt͡sn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "in der Schmiere sitzen" come from?
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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.