nach Lust und Laune

/[naːx lʊst ʊnt ˈlaʊ̯nə]/ phrase

Letters

19 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

nach Lust und Laune is aGermanphrase. It means: ganz nach Belieben, ganz nach eigenem Geschmack Pronounced [naːx lʊst ʊnt ˈlaʊ̯nə].

Key facts for nach Lust und Laune
PropertyValue
Headwordnach Lust und Laune
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[naːx lʊst ʊnt ˈlaʊ̯nə]
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

nach Lust und Laune is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for nach Lust und Laune is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [naːx lʊst ʊnt ˈlaʊ̯nə]. 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: "ganz nach Belieben, ganz nach eigenem Geschmack".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for nach Lust und Laune in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 nach Lust und Laune, spelled N-A-C-H- -L-U-S-T- -U-N-D- -L-A-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ganz nach Belieben, ganz nach eigenem Geschmack

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nach Lust und Laune"?
"nach Lust und Laune" is spelled N-A-C-H- -L-U-S-T- -U-N-D- -L-A-U-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is [naːx lʊst ʊnt ˈlaʊ̯nə].
What does "nach Lust und Laune" mean?
As a phrase, "nach Lust und Laune" means: ganz nach Belieben, ganz nach eigenem Geschmack
How do you pronounce "nach Lust und Laune"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nach Lust und Laune" is [naːx lʊst ʊnt ˈlaʊ̯nə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nach Lust und Laune" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.