was liegt, das pickt
The verdict
“was liegt, das pickt” 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
- 20
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine bereits vorgenommene Handlung, eine getätigte Aussage kann nicht mehr zurückgenommen, rückgängig gemacht werden; was einmal ausgemacht wurde, das hat zu gelten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | was liegt, das pickt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [vas ˈliːkt das ˈpɪkt] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “was liegt, das pickt” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for was liegt, das pickt is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vas ˈliːkt das ˈpɪkt]. 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: "eine bereits vorgenommene Handlung, eine getätigte Aussage kann nicht mehr zurückgenommen, rückgängig gemacht werden; was einmal ausgemacht wurde, das hat zu gelten".
No misspelling variants are generated for was liegt, das pickt 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 was liegt, das pickt, spelled W-A-S- -L-I-E-G-T-,- -D-A-S- -P-I-C-K-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine bereits vorgenommene Handlung, eine getätigte Aussage kann nicht mehr zurückgenommen, rückgängig gemacht werden; was einmal ausgemacht wurde, das hat zu gelten
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is W-A-S- -L-I-E-G-T-,- -D-A-S- -P-I-C-K-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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