vara på fallrepet

/[`vɑːra pɔ `falːˌreːpət]/ phrase

Letters

17 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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similar word pairs

vara på fallrepet is aGermanphrase. It means: in schlechter Verfassung sein und auf dem Weg dazu, aus dem Gebrauch genommen zu werden; auf Talfahrt sein; dem Untergang nahe sein; dem Ruine nahe sein, auf der Kippe wackelig stehen; nahe dran se... Pronounced [`vɑːra pɔ `falːˌreːpət].

Key facts for vara på fallrepet
PropertyValue
Headwordvara på fallrepet
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[`vɑːra pɔ `falːˌreːpət]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vara på fallrepet 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 på fallrepet is 17 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`vɑːra pɔ `falːˌreːpət]. 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 vara på fallrepet 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 på fallrepet, spelled V-A-R-A- -P-Å- -F-A-L-L-R-E-P-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    in schlechter Verfassung sein und auf dem Weg dazu, aus dem Gebrauch genommen zu werden; auf Talfahrt sein; dem Untergang nahe sein; dem Ruine nahe sein, auf der Kippe wackelig stehen; nahe dran sein, gestürzt zu werden oder unterzugehen; „am Fallreep sein“
  2. 2
    kurz vor der Niederkunft stehen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vara på fallrepet"?
"vara på fallrepet" is spelled V-A-R-A- -P-Å- -F-A-L-L-R-E-P-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is [`vɑːra pɔ `falːˌreːpət].
What does "vara på fallrepet" mean?
As a phrase, "vara på fallrepet" means: in schlechter Verfassung sein und auf dem Weg dazu, aus dem Gebrauch genommen zu werden; auf Talfahrt sein; dem Untergang nahe sein; dem Ruine nahe sein, auf der Kippe wackelig stehen; nahe dran se...
How do you pronounce "vara på fallrepet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vara på fallrepet" is [`vɑːra pɔ `falːˌreːpət]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vara på fallrepet" come from?
"vara på fallrepet" 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.