leka med döden
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The verdict
“leka med döden” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — große Risiken eingehen, das Schicksal herausfordern; mit dem Leben spielen, Kopf und Kragen riskieren; sein Leben riskieren; „mit dem Tod spielen“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leka med döden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leka med döden” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for leka med döden is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, 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: "große Risiken eingehen, das Schicksal herausfordern; mit dem Leben spielen, Kopf und Kragen riskieren; sein Leben riskieren; „mit dem Tod spielen“".
No misspelling variants are generated for leka med döden 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 leka med döden, spelled L-E-K-A- -M-E-D- -D-Ö-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1große Risiken eingehen, das Schicksal herausfordern; mit dem Leben spielen, Kopf und Kragen riskieren; sein Leben riskieren; „mit dem Tod spielen“
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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