ligga illa till
[`lɪɡːa `ɪlːa ˈtɪlː]
The verdict
“ligga illa till” 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) - sich in einer schlechten Lage befinden; schlecht dastehen, Probleme haben, im Argen liegen; „schlecht liegen“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ligga illa till |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`lɪɡːa `ɪlːa ˈtɪlː] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ligga illa till” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ligga illa till is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`lɪɡːa `ɪlːa ˈtɪlː]. 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: "sich in einer schlechten Lage befinden; schlecht dastehen, Probleme haben, im Argen liegen; „schlecht liegen“".
No misspelling variants are generated for ligga illa till 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 illa till, spelled L-I-G-G-A- -I-L-L-A- -T-I-L-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich in einer schlechten Lage befinden; schlecht dastehen, Probleme haben, im Argen liegen; „schlecht liegen“
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Using “ligga illa till”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-I-G-G-A- -I-L-L-A- -T-I-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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