jemandem an die Wäsche gehen

/[ˈjeːmandəm an diː ˈvɛʃə ˈɡeːən]/ phrase

Letters

28 characters

Language

German

word origin

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similar word pairs

jemandem an die Wäsche gehen is aGermanphrase. It means: einen tätlichen Angriff auf jemanden verüben Pronounced [ˈjeːmandəm an diː ˈvɛʃə ˈɡeːən].

Key facts for jemandem an die Wäsche gehen
PropertyValue
Headwordjemandem an die Wäsche gehen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈjeːmandəm an diː ˈvɛʃə ˈɡeːən]
Letters28
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jemandem an die Wäsche gehen 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 jemandem an die Wäsche gehen is 28 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeːmandəm an diː ˈvɛʃə ˈɡeːən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for jemandem an die Wäsche gehen 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 jemandem an die Wäsche gehen, spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -A-N- -D-I-E- -W-Ä-S-C-H-E- -G-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    einen tätlichen Angriff auf jemanden verüben
  2. 2
    jemanden sexuell belästigen, jemanden verführen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jemandem an die Wäsche gehen"?
"jemandem an die Wäsche gehen" is spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -A-N- -D-I-E- -W-Ä-S-C-H-E- -G-E-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈjeːmandəm an diː ˈvɛʃə ˈɡeːən].
What does "jemandem an die Wäsche gehen" mean?
As a phrase, "jemandem an die Wäsche gehen" means: einen tätlichen Angriff auf jemanden verüben
How do you pronounce "jemandem an die Wäsche gehen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jemandem an die Wäsche gehen" is [ˈjeːmandəm an diː ˈvɛʃə ˈɡeːən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jemandem an die Wäsche gehen" 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.