dar en el clavo

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dar en el clavo is aGermanphrase. It means: den Nagel auf den Kopf treffen Pronounced […].

Key facts for dar en el clavo
PropertyValue
Headworddar en el clavo
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dar en el clavo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for dar en el clavo is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, 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: "den Nagel auf den Kopf treffen".

No misspelling variants are generated for dar en el clavo 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 dar en el clavo, spelled D-A-R- -E-N- -E-L- -C-L-A-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    den Nagel auf den Kopf treffen

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dar en el clavo"?
"dar en el clavo" is spelled D-A-R- -E-N- -E-L- -C-L-A-V-O. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "dar en el clavo" mean?
As a phrase, "dar en el clavo" means: den Nagel auf den Kopf treffen
How do you pronounce "dar en el clavo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dar en el clavo" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dar en el clavo" come from?
"dar en el clavo" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.