unter Druck stehen

/[ʊntɐ ˈdʁʊk ˌʃteːən]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

unter Druck stehen is aGermanphrase. It means: einem Druck ausgesetzt sein, verdichtet sein Pronounced [ʊntɐ ˈdʁʊk ˌʃteːən].

Key facts for unter Druck stehen
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Headwordunter Druck stehen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ʊntɐ ˈdʁʊk ˌʃteːən]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

unter Druck stehen 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 unter Druck stehen is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʊntɐ ˈdʁʊk ˌʃteːən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for unter Druck stehen 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 unter Druck stehen, spelled U-N-T-E-R- -D-R-U-C-K- -S-T-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    einem Druck ausgesetzt sein, verdichtet sein
  2. 2
    (großen) Schwierigkeiten ausgesetzt sein

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "unter Druck stehen"?
"unter Druck stehen" is spelled U-N-T-E-R- -D-R-U-C-K- -S-T-E-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ʊntɐ ˈdʁʊk ˌʃteːən].
What does "unter Druck stehen" mean?
As a phrase, "unter Druck stehen" means: einem Druck ausgesetzt sein, verdichtet sein
How do you pronounce "unter Druck stehen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "unter Druck stehen" is [ʊntɐ ˈdʁʊk ˌʃteːən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "unter Druck stehen" come from?
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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.