auf dem Kieker haben
The verdict
“auf dem Kieker haben” 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: jemanden misstrauisch im Auge behalten, mit dem Ziel, ein Fehlverhalten festzustellen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auf dem Kieker haben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aʊ̯f deːm ˈkiːkɐ ˌhabn̩] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “auf dem Kieker haben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for auf dem Kieker haben is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aʊ̯f deːm ˈkiːkɐ ˌhabn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for auf dem Kieker haben 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 auf dem Kieker haben, spelled A-U-F- -D-E-M- -K-I-E-K-E-R- -H-A-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemanden misstrauisch im Auge behalten, mit dem Ziel, ein Fehlverhalten festzustellen
- 2jemanden andauernd kritisieren; an jemandem permanent etwas auszusetzen haben und ihn schikanieren
- 3stark an jemandem oder etwas interessiert sein
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Using “auf dem Kieker haben”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-F- -D-E-M- -K-I-E-K-E-R- -H-A-B-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aʊ̯f deːm ˈkiːkɐ ˌhabn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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