an die Decke gehen

/[an diː ˈdɛkə ˈɡeːən]/ phrase

Letters

18 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

an die Decke gehen is aGermanphrase. It means: stark wütend werden; vor Wut fast explodieren Pronounced [an diː ˈdɛkə ˈɡeːən].

Key facts for an die Decke gehen
PropertyValue
Headwordan die Decke gehen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[an diː ˈdɛkə ˈɡeːən]
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

an die Decke gehen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for an die Decke gehen is 18 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [an diː ˈdɛkə ˈɡeːən]. 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: "stark wütend werden; vor Wut fast explodieren".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for an die Decke gehen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 an die Decke gehen, spelled A-N- -D-I-E- -D-E-C-K-E- -G-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    stark wütend werden; vor Wut fast explodieren

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "an die Decke gehen"?
"an die Decke gehen" is spelled A-N- -D-I-E- -D-E-C-K-E- -G-E-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [an diː ˈdɛkə ˈɡeːən].
What does "an die Decke gehen" mean?
As a phrase, "an die Decke gehen" means: stark wütend werden; vor Wut fast explodieren
How do you pronounce "an die Decke gehen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "an die Decke gehen" is [an diː ˈdɛkə ˈɡeːən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "an die Decke gehen" come from?
"an die Decke gehen" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.