inte kunna ta något ur ryggen
[`ɪntə `kɵnːa ˈtɑː `noːɡɔt ˈʉr ˈrʏɡːən]
The verdict
“inte kunna ta något ur ryggen” 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
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — etwas nicht aus dem Ärmel schütteln können, sich etwas nicht aus den Rippen schneiden können; „nicht etwas aus dem Rücken nehmen können“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inte kunna ta något ur ryggen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`ɪntə `kɵnːa ˈtɑː `noːɡɔt ˈʉr ˈrʏɡːən] |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “inte kunna ta något ur ryggen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for inte kunna ta något ur ryggen is 29 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`ɪntə `kɵnːa ˈtɑː `noːɡɔt ˈʉr ˈrʏɡːən]. 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: "etwas nicht aus dem Ärmel schütteln können, sich etwas nicht aus den Rippen schneiden können; „nicht etwas aus dem Rücken nehmen können“".
No misspelling variants are generated for inte kunna ta något ur ryggen 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 inte kunna ta något ur ryggen, spelled I-N-T-E- -K-U-N-N-A- -T-A- -N-Å-G-O-T- -U-R- -R-Y-G-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas nicht aus dem Ärmel schütteln können, sich etwas nicht aus den Rippen schneiden können; „nicht etwas aus dem Rücken nehmen können“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is I-N-T-E- -K-U-N-N-A- -T-A- -N-Å-G-O-T- -U-R- -R-Y-G-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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