von Amts wegen
Letters
14 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
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Confusables
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von Amts wegen is aGermanphrase. It means: auf Anordnung oder im Auftrag einer Behörde oder eines Amtes Pronounced [fɔn ˈamt͡s ˈveːɡn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | von Amts wegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [fɔn ˈamt͡s ˈveːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for von Amts wegen is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɔn ˈamt͡s ˈveːɡn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for von Amts wegen 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 von Amts wegen, spelled V-O-N- -A-M-T-S- -W-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1auf Anordnung oder im Auftrag einer Behörde oder eines Amtes
- 2dienstlich, beruflich
- 3kraft eines Amtes Befugnisse oder Funktionen innehabend
- 4einen Vorgang eigenständig und ohne weitere Anträge einleitend
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