leka med elden
[`leːka ˈmɛːd ˈɛ̝ldən]
The verdict
“leka med elden” 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) — mit der Gefahr oder der Liebe spielen; mit dem Feuer spielen; oft für das Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern; leichtsinnig mit Dingen oder Beziehungen umgehen, so dass diese Schaden nehmen könnt...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leka med elden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`leːka ˈmɛːd ˈɛ̝ldən] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “leka med elden” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for leka med elden is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`leːka ˈmɛːd ˈɛ̝ldən]. 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: "mit der Gefahr oder der Liebe spielen; mit dem Feuer spielen; oft für das Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern; leichtsinnig mit Dingen oder Beziehungen umgehen, so dass diese Schaden nehmen könnt...".
No misspelling variants are generated for leka med elden 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 elden, spelled L-E-K-A- -M-E-D- -E-L-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit der Gefahr oder der Liebe spielen; mit dem Feuer spielen; oft für das Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern; leichtsinnig mit Dingen oder Beziehungen umgehen, so dass diese Schaden nehmen könnten; leichtsinnig die Gefahr herausfordern
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 L-E-K-A- -M-E-D- -E-L-D-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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