seinem Herzen Luft machen
[ˈzaɪ̯nəm ˈhɛʁt͡sn̩ ˈlʊft ˈmaxn̩]
The verdict
“seinem Herzen Luft machen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich von seinem Ärger befreien, das, was einen ärgert oder bedrückt, aussprechen
Corpus desk
Index DE-seinem-herzen-luft-mache · seinem Herzen Luft machen · German
seinem Herzen Luft machen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 25 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 | seinem Herzen Luft machen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈzaɪ̯nəm ˈhɛʁt͡sn̩ ˈlʊft ˈmaxn̩] |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „seinem Herzen Luft machen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
seinem Herzen Luft machen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [ˈzaɪ̯nəm ˈhɛʁt͡sn̩ ˈlʊft ˈmaxn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich von seinem Ärger befreien, das, was einen ärgert oder bedrückt, aussprechen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for seinem Herzen Luft machen, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is seinem Herzen Luft machen, spelled S-E-I-N-E-M- -H-E-R-Z-E-N- -L-U-F-T- -M-A-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich von seinem Ärger befreien, das, was einen ärgert oder bedrückt, aussprechen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how seinem Herzen Luft machen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Am Abend vor Heiligabend habe ich dann meinem Herzen Luft gemacht, und meinen Eltern alles erzählt, was ich schon lange mal sagen wollte.
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.