jemanden auf die Folter spannen

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

31 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

jemanden auf die Folter spannen is aGermanphrase. It means: jemanden (unnötig) lange warten lassen Pronounced […].

Key facts for jemanden auf die Folter spannen
PropertyValue
Headwordjemanden auf die Folter spannen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters31
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jemanden auf die Folter spannen 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 jemanden auf die Folter spannen is 31 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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 (unnötig) lange warten lassen".

No misspelling variants are generated for jemanden auf die Folter spannen 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 jemanden auf die Folter spannen, spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-N- -A-U-F- -D-I-E- -F-O-L-T-E-R- -S-P-A-N-N-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 (unnötig) lange warten lassen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jemanden auf die Folter spannen"?
"jemanden auf die Folter spannen" is spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-N- -A-U-F- -D-I-E- -F-O-L-T-E-R- -S-P-A-N-N-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "jemanden auf die Folter spannen" mean?
As a phrase, "jemanden auf die Folter spannen" means: jemanden (unnötig) lange warten lassen
How do you pronounce "jemanden auf die Folter spannen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jemanden auf die Folter spannen" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jemanden auf die Folter spannen" 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.