auf taube Ohren stoßen
The verdict
“auf taube Ohren stoßen” 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
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: kein Gehör mit seinem Anliegen oder dergleichen finden; Ablehnung oder Desinteresse antreffen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auf taube Ohren stoßen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌʔaʊ̯f ˌtaʊ̯bə ˈʔoːʁən ˌʃtoːsn̩] |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “auf taube Ohren stoßen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for auf taube Ohren stoßen is 22 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʔaʊ̯f ˌtaʊ̯bə ˈʔoːʁən ˌʃtoːsn̩]. 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: "kein Gehör mit seinem Anliegen oder dergleichen finden; Ablehnung oder Desinteresse antreffen".
No misspelling variants are generated for auf taube Ohren stoßen 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 taube Ohren stoßen, spelled A-U-F- -T-A-U-B-E- -O-H-R-E-N- -S-T-O-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1kein Gehör mit seinem Anliegen oder dergleichen finden; Ablehnung oder Desinteresse antreffen
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-F- -T-A-U-B-E- -O-H-R-E-N- -S-T-O-S-S-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌʔaʊ̯f ˌtaʊ̯bə ˈʔoːʁən ˌʃtoːsn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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