sack um

/[ˌzak ˈʊm]/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sack um is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs umsacken Pronounced [ˌzak ˈʊm].

Key facts for sack um
PropertyValue
Headwordsack um
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˌzak ˈʊm]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

sack um 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 sack um is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌzak ˈʊm]. 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: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs umsacken".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sack um 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 sack um, spelled S-A-C-K- -U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs umsacken

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sack um"?
"sack um" is spelled S-A-C-K- -U-M. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌzak ˈʊm].
What does "sack um" mean?
As a verb, "sack um" means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs umsacken
How do you pronounce "sack um"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sack um" is [ˌzak ˈʊm]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sack um" come from?
"sack um" 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.