ligga för fäfot
[`lɪɡːa ˈfœːr `fɛˌfʊːt]
The verdict
“ligga för fäfot” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - über Erde, Land, das brach liegt; brachliegen; unbenutzt liegen; ungebraucht liegen lassen; nicht bewirtschaftet sein, wüst liegen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligga för fäfot |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`lɪɡːa ˈfœːr `fɛˌfʊːt] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ligga för fäfot” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ligga för fäfot is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`lɪɡːa ˈfœːr `fɛˌfʊːt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ligga för fäfot 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 ligga för fäfot, spelled L-I-G-G-A- -F-Ö-R- -F-Ä-F-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1über Erde, Land, das brach liegt; brachliegen; unbenutzt liegen; ungebraucht liegen lassen; nicht bewirtschaftet sein, wüst liegen
- 2etwas wird nicht behandelt, nicht bearbeitet, es ruht, niemand kümmert sich darum
- 3„liegen für Viehfuß“
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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Using “ligga för fäfot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-I-G-G-A- -F-Ö-R- -F-Ä-F-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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