bei jemandem auf den Busch klopfen
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The verdict
“bei jemandem auf den Busch klopfen” 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
- 34
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - durch richtige Fragen die Lage sondieren, vorsichtig anfragen/nachfragen/nachhaken
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bei jemandem auf den Busch klopfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 34 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bei jemandem auf den Busch klopfen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bei jemandem auf den Busch klopfen is 34 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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 richtige Fragen die Lage sondieren, vorsichtig anfragen/nachfragen/nachhaken".
No misspelling variants are generated for bei jemandem auf den Busch klopfen 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 bei jemandem auf den Busch klopfen, spelled B-E-I- -J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -A-U-F- -D-E-N- -B-U-S-C-H- -K-L-O-P-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1durch richtige Fragen die Lage sondieren, vorsichtig anfragen/nachfragen/nachhaken
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is B-E-I- -J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -A-U-F- -D-E-N- -B-U-S-C-H- -K-L-O-P-F-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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