öffentliche Hand

/[ˌœfn̩tlɪçə ˈhant]/ phrase

Letters

16 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

öffentliche Hand is aGermanphrase. It means: Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (Gemeinde, Land, Bund oder Ähnliches) Pronounced [ˌœfn̩tlɪçə ˈhant].

Key facts for öffentliche Hand
PropertyValue
Headwordöffentliche Hand
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˌœfn̩tlɪçə ˈhant]
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

öffentliche Hand 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 öffentliche Hand is 16 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌœfn̩tlɪçə ˈhant]. 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: "Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (Gemeinde, Land, Bund oder Ähnliches)".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for öffentliche Hand 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 öffentliche Hand, spelled Ö-F-F-E-N-T-L-I-C-H-E- -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
    Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (Gemeinde, Land, Bund oder Ähnliches)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "öffentliche Hand"?
"öffentliche Hand" is spelled Ö-F-F-E-N-T-L-I-C-H-E- -H-A-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌœfn̩tlɪçə ˈhant].
What does "öffentliche Hand" mean?
As a phrase, "öffentliche Hand" means: Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (Gemeinde, Land, Bund oder Ähnliches)
How do you pronounce "öffentliche Hand"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "öffentliche Hand" is [ˌœfn̩tlɪçə ˈhant]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "öffentliche Hand" come from?
"öffentliche Hand" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.