sich die Finger schmutzig machen
The verdict
“sich die Finger schmutzig machen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 32
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: sich in einer Angelegenheit schuldig machen, eine Gesetzwidrigkeit begehen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sich die Finger schmutzig machen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [zɪç diː ˈfɪŋɐ ˈʃmʊt͡sɪç ˈmaxn̩] |
| Letters | 32 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sich die Finger schmutzig machen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sich die Finger schmutzig machen is 32 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zɪç diː ˈfɪŋɐ ˈʃmʊt͡sɪç ˈmaxn̩]. 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: "sich in einer Angelegenheit schuldig machen, eine Gesetzwidrigkeit begehen".
No misspelling variants are generated for sich die Finger schmutzig machen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 sich die Finger schmutzig machen, spelled S-I-C-H- -D-I-E- -F-I-N-G-E-R- -S-C-H-M-U-T-Z-I-G- -M-A-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich in einer Angelegenheit schuldig machen, eine Gesetzwidrigkeit begehen
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- The one correct German spelling is S-I-C-H- -D-I-E- -F-I-N-G-E-R- -S-C-H-M-U-T-Z-I-G- -M-A-C-H-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [zɪç diː ˈfɪŋɐ ˈʃmʊt͡sɪç ˈmaxn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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