inte lägga två strån i kors

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for inte lägga två strån i kors is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`ɪntə `lɛ̝ɡːa ˈtvoː ˈstroːn ɪ ˈkoʂː]. 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 überhaupt nicht anstrengen; keinen Finger rühren; keinen Finger krumm machen; kein Glied, weder Hand noch Fuß rühren, die Hände in den Schoß legen; sich keine Mühe geben; untätig und gleichgül...".

No misspelling variants are generated for inte lägga två strån i kors 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 lägga två strån i kors, spelled I-N-T-E- -L-Ä-G-G-A- -T-V-Å- -S-T-R-Å-N- -I- -K-O-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.