lieget zu Grunde
[ˈliːɡət t͡su ˈɡʁʊndə]
The verdict
“lieget zu Grunde” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zu Grunde liegen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lieget zu Grunde |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈliːɡət t͡su ˈɡʁʊndə] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lieget zu Grunde” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for lieget zu Grunde is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈliːɡət t͡su ˈɡʁʊndə]. 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 Plural Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zu Grunde liegen".
No misspelling variants are generated for lieget zu Grunde 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 lieget zu Grunde, spelled L-I-E-G-E-T- -Z-U- -G-R-U-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zu Grunde liegen
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-I-E-G-E-T- -Z-U- -G-R-U-N-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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