in guten Händen sein

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

20 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

in guten Händen sein is aGermanphrase. It means: bei jemandem sicher und gut aufgehoben sein Pronounced […].

Key facts for in guten Händen sein
PropertyValue
Headwordin guten Händen sein
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

in guten Händen sein 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 guten Händen sein is 20 letters long, classified as aphrase, 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: "bei jemandem sicher und gut aufgehoben sein".

No misspelling variants are generated for in guten Händen sein 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 guten Händen sein, spelled I-N- -G-U-T-E-N- -H-Ä-N-D-E-N- -S-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    bei jemandem sicher und gut aufgehoben sein

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "in guten Händen sein"?
"in guten Händen sein" is spelled I-N- -G-U-T-E-N- -H-Ä-N-D-E-N- -S-E-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "in guten Händen sein" mean?
As a phrase, "in guten Händen sein" means: bei jemandem sicher und gut aufgehoben sein
How do you pronounce "in guten Händen sein"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "in guten Händen sein" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "in guten Händen sein" come from?
"in guten Händen sein" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.