vifta med kalla handen
The verdict
“vifta med kalla handen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: ungerührt ablehnen, die kalte Schulter zeigen; abwinken; „mit der kalten Hand wedeln“
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vifta med kalla handen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [`vɪfta ˈmɛːd `kalːa ˈhandən] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vifta med kalla handen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vifta med kalla handen is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [`vɪfta ˈmɛːd `kalːa ˈhandən]. 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: "ungerührt ablehnen, die kalte Schulter zeigen; abwinken; „mit der kalten Hand wedeln“".
No misspelling variants are generated for vifta med kalla handen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 vifta med kalla handen, spelled V-I-F-T-A- -M-E-D- -K-A-L-L-A- -H-A-N-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ungerührt ablehnen, die kalte Schulter zeigen; abwinken; „mit der kalten Hand wedeln“
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Using “vifta med kalla handen”
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- The one correct German spelling is V-I-F-T-A- -M-E-D- -K-A-L-L-A- -H-A-N-D-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [`vɪfta ˈmɛːd `kalːa ˈhandən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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