jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen

/[ˈjeːmandəm ʔaɪ̯n ˈkʊkʊksʔaɪ̯ ʔɪns nɛst ˈleːɡn̩]/ phrase

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jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen is aGermanphrase. It means: jemanden so schädigen, dass es sich erst später als eine unangenehme Überraschung erweist Pronounced [ˈjeːmandəm ʔaɪ̯n ˈkʊkʊksʔaɪ̯ ʔɪns nɛst ˈleːɡn̩].

Key facts for jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen
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Headwordjemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈjeːmandəm ʔaɪ̯n ˈkʊkʊksʔaɪ̯ ʔɪns nɛst ˈleːɡn̩]
Letters38
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen 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 ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen is 38 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈjeːmandəm ʔaɪ̯n ˈkʊkʊksʔaɪ̯ ʔɪns nɛst ˈleːɡn̩]. 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: "jemanden so schädigen, dass es sich erst später als eine unangenehme Überraschung erweist".

No misspelling variants are generated for jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen 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 ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen, spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -E-I-N- -K-U-C-K-U-C-K-S-E-I- -I-N-S- -N-E-S-T- -L-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    jemanden so schädigen, dass es sich erst später als eine unangenehme Überraschung erweist

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How do you spell "jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen"?
"jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen" is spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -E-I-N- -K-U-C-K-U-C-K-S-E-I- -I-N-S- -N-E-S-T- -L-E-G-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈjeːmandəm ʔaɪ̯n ˈkʊkʊksʔaɪ̯ ʔɪns nɛst ˈleːɡn̩].
What does "jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen" mean?
As a phrase, "jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen" means: jemanden so schädigen, dass es sich erst später als eine unangenehme Überraschung erweist
How do you pronounce "jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen" is [ˈjeːmandəm ʔaɪ̯n ˈkʊkʊksʔaɪ̯ ʔɪns nɛst ˈleːɡn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen" come from?
"jemandem ein Kuckucksei ins Nest legen" 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.