schief gewickelt sein
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The verdict
“schief gewickelt sein” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - im Irrtum sein, eine (völlig) falsche Vorstellung haben
Corpus desk
Index DE-schief-gewickelt-sein · schief gewickelt sein · German
schief gewickelt sein · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schief gewickelt sein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schief gewickelt sein“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schief gewickelt sein is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "im Irrtum sein, eine (völlig) falsche Vorstellung haben".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for schief gewickelt sein, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is schief gewickelt sein, spelled S-C-H-I-E-F- -G-E-W-I-C-K-E-L-T- -S-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1im Irrtum sein, eine (völlig) falsche Vorstellung haben
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how schief gewickelt sein appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn du glaubst, mir ungestraft solche Lügengeschichten auftischen zu können, dann bist du aber schief gewickelt!
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