vara om sig och kring sig

/[`vɑːra ˈɔmː ˈsɛ̝j ˌɔ ˈkrɪŋː ˈsɛ̝j]/ phrase

Letters

25 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

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similar word pairs

vara om sig och kring sig is aGermanphrase. It means: ständig versuchen, kleine Vorteile zu ergattern; auf seinen Vorteil bedacht sein; auf eine knauserige Art und Weise seinen eigenen Interessen dienen; eigennützig und berechnend sein; „um sich und u... Pronounced [`vɑːra ˈɔmː ˈsɛ̝j ˌɔ ˈkrɪŋː ˈsɛ̝j].

Key facts for vara om sig och kring sig
PropertyValue
Headwordvara om sig och kring sig
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[`vɑːra ˈɔmː ˈsɛ̝j ˌɔ ˈkrɪŋː ˈsɛ̝j]
Letters25
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vara om sig och kring sig 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 vara om sig och kring sig is 25 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`vɑːra ˈɔmː ˈsɛ̝j ˌɔ ˈkrɪŋː ˈsɛ̝j]. 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: "ständig versuchen, kleine Vorteile zu ergattern; auf seinen Vorteil bedacht sein; auf eine knauserige Art und Weise seinen eigenen Interessen dienen; eigennützig und berechnend sein; „um sich und u...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vara om sig och kring sig 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 om sig och kring sig, spelled V-A-R-A- -O-M- -S-I-G- -O-C-H- -K-R-I-N-G- -S-I-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ständig versuchen, kleine Vorteile zu ergattern; auf seinen Vorteil bedacht sein; auf eine knauserige Art und Weise seinen eigenen Interessen dienen; eigennützig und berechnend sein; „um sich und um sich herum sein“

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vara om sig och kring sig"?
"vara om sig och kring sig" is spelled V-A-R-A- -O-M- -S-I-G- -O-C-H- -K-R-I-N-G- -S-I-G. The IPA pronunciation is [`vɑːra ˈɔmː ˈsɛ̝j ˌɔ ˈkrɪŋː ˈsɛ̝j].
What does "vara om sig och kring sig" mean?
As a phrase, "vara om sig och kring sig" means: ständig versuchen, kleine Vorteile zu ergattern; auf seinen Vorteil bedacht sein; auf eine knauserige Art und Weise seinen eigenen Interessen dienen; eigennützig und berechnend sein; „um sich und u...
How do you pronounce "vara om sig och kring sig"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vara om sig och kring sig" is [`vɑːra ˈɔmː ˈsɛ̝j ˌɔ ˈkrɪŋː ˈsɛ̝j]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vara om sig och kring sig" 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.