vara på fallrepet
Letters
17 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vara på fallrepet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`vɑːra pɔ `falːˌreːpət] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1in 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“
- 2kurz vor der Niederkunft stehen
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