ligga på sitt yttersta

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ligga på sitt yttersta is 22 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: "kurz davor sein zu sterben; dem Tode nahe sein, auf dem Totenbett liegen; in den letzten Zügen liegen; „auf seinem Äußersten liegen“".

No misspelling variants are generated for ligga på sitt yttersta 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 på sitt yttersta, spelled L-I-G-G-A- -P-Å- -S-I-T-T- -Y-T-T-E-R-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.