unter den Hammer kommen
[ˈʊntɐ deːn ˈhamɐ ˈkɔmən]
The verdict
“unter den Hammer kommen” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - öffentlich versteigert bzw. vergantet werden, meist weil der Eigentümer zahlungsunfähig ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unter den Hammer kommen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʊntɐ deːn ˈhamɐ ˈkɔmən] |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “unter den Hammer kommen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for unter den Hammer kommen is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʊntɐ deːn ˈhamɐ ˈkɔmən]. 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: "öffentlich versteigert bzw. vergantet werden, meist weil der Eigentümer zahlungsunfähig ist".
No misspelling variants are generated for unter den Hammer kommen 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 unter den Hammer kommen, spelled U-N-T-E-R- -D-E-N- -H-A-M-M-E-R- -K-O-M-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1öffentlich versteigert bzw. vergantet werden, meist weil der Eigentümer zahlungsunfähig ist
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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- The one correct German spelling is U-N-T-E-R- -D-E-N- -H-A-M-M-E-R- -K-O-M-M-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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