klä sig i säck och aska

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for klä sig i säck och aska is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈklɛːˌsɛ̝jː ɪ ˈsɛ̝kː ˌɔ `aska]. 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: "Buße tun; in Sack und Asche; in Sack und Asche Buße tun; der Ausdruck gibt der Trauer oder der Bereitschaft zur Buße eine deutliche und markante Form; in Sack und Asche gehen; „sich in Sack und Asc...".

No misspelling variants are generated for klä sig i säck och aska 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 klä sig i säck och aska, spelled K-L-Ä- -S-I-G- -I- -S-Ä-C-K- -O-C-H- -A-S-K-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.