inte veta på vilken fot man skall stå
[`ɪntə `veːta pɔ `vɪlkən `fʊːt ˈmanː ˈskalː ˈstoː]
The verdict
“inte veta på vilken fot man skall stå” 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
- 37
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — unschlüssig, ratlos sein; nicht wissen, wie man sich entscheiden soll; zwischen zwei Möglichkeiten schwanken; nicht wissen, was man zuerst tun soll
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inte veta på vilken fot man skall stå |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`ɪntə `veːta pɔ `vɪlkən `fʊːt ˈmanː ˈskalː ˈstoː] |
| Letters | 37 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “inte veta på vilken fot man skall stå” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for inte veta på vilken fot man skall stå is 37 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`ɪntə `veːta pɔ `vɪlkən `fʊːt ˈmanː ˈskalː ˈstoː]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for inte veta på vilken fot man skall stå 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 veta på vilken fot man skall stå, spelled I-N-T-E- -V-E-T-A- -P-Å- -V-I-L-K-E-N- -F-O-T- -M-A-N- -S-K-A-L-L- -S-T-Å, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1unschlüssig, ratlos sein; nicht wissen, wie man sich entscheiden soll; zwischen zwei Möglichkeiten schwanken; nicht wissen, was man zuerst tun soll
- 2sehr froh sein; in höchstem Grade von Freude erfüllt sein; einem sehr starken Gefühl unterworfen sein, ganz besonders der Freude; überglücklich sein;
- 3„nicht wissen, auf welchem Fuß man stehen soll“
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- -V-E-T-A- -P-Å- -V-I-L-K-E-N- -F-O-T- -M-A-N- -S-K-A-L-L- -S-T-Å - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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