was weiß ich

/[vas vaɪ̯s ɪç]/ phrase

Letters

12 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

was weiß ich is aGermanphrase. It means: man kennt etwas nicht, hat keine Ahnung, oft als unerheblich bewertet oder als Zeichen von Gleichgültigkeit Pronounced [vas vaɪ̯s ɪç].

Key facts for was weiß ich
PropertyValue
Headwordwas weiß ich
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[vas vaɪ̯s ɪç]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

was weiß ich is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for was weiß ich is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vas vaɪ̯s ɪç]. 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: "man kennt etwas nicht, hat keine Ahnung, oft als unerheblich bewertet oder als Zeichen von Gleichgültigkeit".

No misspelling variants are generated for was weiß ich 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 weiß ich, spelled W-A-S- -W-E-I-S-S- -I-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    man kennt etwas nicht, hat keine Ahnung, oft als unerheblich bewertet oder als Zeichen von Gleichgültigkeit

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "was weiß ich"?
"was weiß ich" is spelled W-A-S- -W-E-I-SS- -I-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is [vas vaɪ̯s ɪç].
What does "was weiß ich" mean?
As a phrase, "was weiß ich" means: man kennt etwas nicht, hat keine Ahnung, oft als unerheblich bewertet oder als Zeichen von Gleichgültigkeit
How do you pronounce "was weiß ich"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "was weiß ich" is [vas vaɪ̯s ɪç]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "was weiß ich" come from?
"was weiß ich" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.