um sich greift

/[ʊm zɪç ɡʁaɪ̯ft]/ verb

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

um sich greift is aGermanverb. It means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs um sich greifen Pronounced [ʊm zɪç ɡʁaɪ̯ft].

Key facts for um sich greift
PropertyValue
Headwordum sich greift
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ʊm zɪç ɡʁaɪ̯ft]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

um sich greift 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 um sich greift is 14 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʊm zɪç ɡʁaɪ̯ft]. 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: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs um sich greifen".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for um sich greift 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 um sich greift, spelled U-M- -S-I-C-H- -G-R-E-I-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs um sich greifen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "um sich greift"?
"um sich greift" is spelled U-M- -S-I-C-H- -G-R-E-I-F-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ʊm zɪç ɡʁaɪ̯ft].
What does "um sich greift" mean?
As a verb, "um sich greift" means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs um sich greifen
How do you pronounce "um sich greift"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "um sich greift" is [ʊm zɪç ɡʁaɪ̯ft]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "um sich greift" come from?
"um sich greift" 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.