slänga käft
[`slɛ̝ŋːa ˈɕɛ̝ft]
The verdict
“slänga käft” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - lebhaft diskutieren; sich zwanglos und wortreich unterhalten, einen Schwatz halten, sich mit jemandem kabbeln; viel reden; „den Kiefer werfen“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slänga käft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`slɛ̝ŋːa ˈɕɛ̝ft] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “slänga käft” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for slänga käft is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`slɛ̝ŋːa ˈɕɛ̝ft]. 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: "lebhaft diskutieren; sich zwanglos und wortreich unterhalten, einen Schwatz halten, sich mit jemandem kabbeln; viel reden; „den Kiefer werfen“".
No misspelling variants are generated for slänga käft 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 slänga käft, spelled S-L-Ä-N-G-A- -K-Ä-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1lebhaft diskutieren; sich zwanglos und wortreich unterhalten, einen Schwatz halten, sich mit jemandem kabbeln; viel reden; „den Kiefer werfen“
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.
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Using “slänga käft”
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- The one correct German spelling is S-L-Ä-N-G-A- -K-Ä-F-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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