jemandem unter den Nägeln brennen

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for jemandem unter den Nägeln brennen is 33 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʊntɐ deːn ˈnɛːɡl̩n ˈbʁɛnən]. 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: "jemandem sehr wichtig sein; jemandem so wichtig sein, dass er/sie etwas gegenüber einer anderen Person unbedingt äußern oder fragen möchte".

No misspelling variants are generated for jemandem unter den Nägeln brennen 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 unter den Nägeln brennen, spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -U-N-T-E-R- -D-E-N- -N-Ä-G-E-L-N- -B-R-E-N-N-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.