leichten Herzens

/[ˌlaɪ̯çtn̩ ˈhɛʁt͡sn̩s]/ phrase

Letters

16 characters

Language

German

word origin

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leichten Herzens is aGermanphrase. It means: ohne dass es jemandem Anstrengung, Sorgen bereitet, jemanden Überwindung kostet, ohne Bedenken, Zweifel; sehr gern; völlig unbekümmert Pronounced [ˌlaɪ̯çtn̩ ˈhɛʁt͡sn̩s].

Key facts for leichten Herzens
PropertyValue
Headwordleichten Herzens
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌlaɪ̯çtn̩ ˈhɛʁt͡sn̩s]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

leichten Herzens 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 leichten Herzens is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌlaɪ̯çtn̩ ˈhɛʁt͡sn̩s]. 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: "ohne dass es jemandem Anstrengung, Sorgen bereitet, jemanden Überwindung kostet, ohne Bedenken, Zweifel; sehr gern; völlig unbekümmert".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for leichten Herzens 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 leichten Herzens, spelled L-E-I-C-H-T-E-N- -H-E-R-Z-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ohne dass es jemandem Anstrengung, Sorgen bereitet, jemanden Überwindung kostet, ohne Bedenken, Zweifel; sehr gern; völlig unbekümmert

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "leichten Herzens"?
"leichten Herzens" is spelled L-E-I-C-H-T-E-N- -H-E-R-Z-E-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌlaɪ̯çtn̩ ˈhɛʁt͡sn̩s].
What does "leichten Herzens" mean?
As a phrase, "leichten Herzens" means: ohne dass es jemandem Anstrengung, Sorgen bereitet, jemanden Überwindung kostet, ohne Bedenken, Zweifel; sehr gern; völlig unbekümmert
How do you pronounce "leichten Herzens"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "leichten Herzens" is [ˌlaɪ̯çtn̩ ˈhɛʁt͡sn̩s]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "leichten Herzens" come from?
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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.