kasta yxan i sjön
The verdict
“kasta yxan i sjön” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: voll und ganz aufgeben, seine Anstrengungen aufgeben; die Flinte ins Korn werfen; der Axt den Stiel nachwerfen, beim ersten Missgeschick die Flinte ins Korn werfen; „die Axt in den See werfen“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kasta yxan i sjön |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`kasta `ʏksan ɪ ˈɧø̞nː] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “kasta yxan i sjön” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for kasta yxan i sjön is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`kasta `ʏksan ɪ ˈɧø̞nː]. 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: "voll und ganz aufgeben, seine Anstrengungen aufgeben; die Flinte ins Korn werfen; der Axt den Stiel nachwerfen, beim ersten Missgeschick die Flinte ins Korn werfen; „die Axt in den See werfen“".
No misspelling variants are generated for kasta yxan i sjön 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 kasta yxan i sjön, spelled K-A-S-T-A- -Y-X-A-N- -I- -S-J-Ö-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1voll und ganz aufgeben, seine Anstrengungen aufgeben; die Flinte ins Korn werfen; der Axt den Stiel nachwerfen, beim ersten Missgeschick die Flinte ins Korn werfen; „die Axt in den See werfen“
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 K-A-S-T-A- -Y-X-A-N- -I- -S-J-Ö-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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