chovat se jako slon v porcelánu
The verdict
“chovat se jako slon v porcelánu” 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
- 31
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: sich ungeschickt, unbeholfen verhalten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chovat se jako slon v porcelánu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈxɔvat͡sɛ ˈjakɔ slɔn ˈfpɔrt͡sɛlaːnʊ] |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chovat se jako slon v porcelánu” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for chovat se jako slon v porcelánu is 31 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxɔvat͡sɛ ˈjakɔ slɔn ˈfpɔrt͡sɛlaːnʊ]. 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: "sich ungeschickt, unbeholfen verhalten".
No misspelling variants are generated for chovat se jako slon v porcelánu 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 chovat se jako slon v porcelánu, spelled C-H-O-V-A-T- -S-E- -J-A-K-O- -S-L-O-N- -V- -P-O-R-C-E-L-Á-N-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich ungeschickt, unbeholfen verhalten
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Using “chovat se jako slon v porcelánu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-H-O-V-A-T- -S-E- -J-A-K-O- -S-L-O-N- -V- -P-O-R-C-E-L-Á-N-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈxɔvat͡sɛ ˈjakɔ slɔn ˈfpɔrt͡sɛlaːnʊ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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