lach schief

/[ˌlax ˈʃiːf]/ verb

Letters

11 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

lach schief is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schieflachen Pronounced [ˌlax ˈʃiːf].

Key facts for lach schief
PropertyValue
Headwordlach schief
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˌlax ˈʃiːf]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

lach schief is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for lach schief is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌlax ˈʃiːf]. 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: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schieflachen".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lach schief in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 lach schief, spelled L-A-C-H- -S-C-H-I-E-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schieflachen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lach schief"?
"lach schief" is spelled L-A-C-H- -S-C-H-I-E-F. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌlax ˈʃiːf].
What does "lach schief" mean?
As a verb, "lach schief" means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schieflachen
How do you pronounce "lach schief"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lach schief" is [ˌlax ˈʃiːf]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lach schief" come from?
"lach schief" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.