meddela något under hand

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The verdict

“meddela något under hand” 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
24
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — etwas inoffiziell mitteilen, zum Beispiel in Hinblick auf einen erwarteten, aber noch nicht gefassten Beschluss; unter der Hand mitteilen; inoffiziell verlauten lassen; „etwas unter Hand mitteilen“

Key facts for meddela något under hand
PropertyValue
Headwordmeddela något under hand
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “meddela något under hand” sits in German frequency

meddela något under hand falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for meddela något under hand is 24 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: "etwas inoffiziell mitteilen, zum Beispiel in Hinblick auf einen erwarteten, aber noch nicht gefassten Beschluss; unter der Hand mitteilen; inoffiziell verlauten lassen; „etwas unter Hand mitteilen“".

No misspelling variants are generated for meddela något under hand 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 meddela något under hand, spelled M-E-D-D-E-L-A- -N-Å-G-O-T- -U-N-D-E-R- -H-A-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    etwas inoffiziell mitteilen, zum Beispiel in Hinblick auf einen erwarteten, aber noch nicht gefassten Beschluss; unter der Hand mitteilen; inoffiziell verlauten lassen; „etwas unter Hand mitteilen“

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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How do you spell "meddela något under hand"?
"meddela något under hand" is spelled M-E-D-D-E-L-A- -N-Å-G-O-T- -U-N-D-E-R- -H-A-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "meddela något under hand" mean?
As a phrase, "meddela något under hand" means: etwas inoffiziell mitteilen, zum Beispiel in Hinblick auf einen erwarteten, aber noch nicht gefassten Beschluss; unter der Hand mitteilen; inoffiziell verlauten lassen; „etwas unter Hand mitteilen“
How do you pronounce "meddela något under hand"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "meddela något under hand" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “meddela något under hand”

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  • The one correct German spelling is M-E-D-D-E-L-A- -N-Å-G-O-T- -U-N-D-E-R- -H-A-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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