vara listig som en räv
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Language
German
word origin
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vara listig som en räv is aGermanphrase. It means: jemand, der unerwartete Lösungen finden kann, unter Umständen, um seine Konkurrenz zu narren, dies sowohl mit positivem als auch mit negativem Unterton; schlau wie ein Fuchs sein; „listig wie ein F... Pronounced [`vɑːra `lɪstɪ ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː ˈrɛːv].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vara listig som en räv |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`vɑːra `lɪstɪ ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː ˈrɛːv] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vara listig som en räv is 22 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`vɑːra `lɪstɪ ˈsɔmː ˈɛ̝nː ˈrɛːv]. 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: "jemand, der unerwartete Lösungen finden kann, unter Umständen, um seine Konkurrenz zu narren, dies sowohl mit positivem als auch mit negativem Unterton; schlau wie ein Fuchs sein; „listig wie ein F...".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vara listig som en räv 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 vara listig som en räv, spelled V-A-R-A- -L-I-S-T-I-G- -S-O-M- -E-N- -R-Ä-V, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemand, der unerwartete Lösungen finden kann, unter Umständen, um seine Konkurrenz zu narren, dies sowohl mit positivem als auch mit negativem Unterton; schlau wie ein Fuchs sein; „listig wie ein Fuchs sein“
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