ljuga som en borstbindare
[`jʉːɡa ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː `bɔʂʈˌbɪndarə]
The verdict
“ljuga som en borstbindare” 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
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - maßlos lügen; wie gedruckt lügen; das Blaue vom Himmel herunterlügen; übertrieben, übermäßig, mit äußerster Heftigkeit; „lügen wie ein Bürstenbinder“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ljuga som en borstbindare |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`jʉːɡa ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː `bɔʂʈˌbɪndarə] |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ljuga som en borstbindare” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ljuga som en borstbindare is 25 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`jʉːɡa ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː `bɔʂʈˌbɪndarə]. 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: "maßlos lügen; wie gedruckt lügen; das Blaue vom Himmel herunterlügen; übertrieben, übermäßig, mit äußerster Heftigkeit; „lügen wie ein Bürstenbinder“".
No misspelling variants are generated for ljuga som en borstbindare 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 ljuga som en borstbindare, spelled L-J-U-G-A- -S-O-M- -E-N- -B-O-R-S-T-B-I-N-D-A-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1maßlos lügen; wie gedruckt lügen; das Blaue vom Himmel herunterlügen; übertrieben, übermäßig, mit äußerster Heftigkeit; „lügen wie ein Bürstenbinder“
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-J-U-G-A- -S-O-M- -E-N- -B-O-R-S-T-B-I-N-D-A-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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