was sich liebt, das neckt sich
The verdict
“was sich liebt, das neckt sich” 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
- 30
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: durch gegenseitiges scherzhaftes Sticheln, Veralbern, Schäkern, Plänkeln wird Zugehörigkeit vermittelt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | was sich liebt, das neckt sich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [vas zɪç liːpt das nɛkt zɪç] |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “was sich liebt, das neckt sich” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for was sich liebt, das neckt sich is 30 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vas zɪç liːpt das nɛkt zɪç]. 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: "durch gegenseitiges scherzhaftes Sticheln, Veralbern, Schäkern, Plänkeln wird Zugehörigkeit vermittelt".
No misspelling variants are generated for was sich liebt, das neckt sich 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 sich liebt, das neckt sich, spelled W-A-S- -S-I-C-H- -L-I-E-B-T-,- -D-A-S- -N-E-C-K-T- -S-I-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1durch gegenseitiges scherzhaftes Sticheln, Veralbern, Schäkern, Plänkeln wird Zugehörigkeit vermittelt
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Using “was sich liebt, das neckt sich”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-A-S- -S-I-C-H- -L-I-E-B-T-,- -D-A-S- -N-E-C-K-T- -S-I-C-H — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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