das Haar in der Suppe suchen
The verdict
“das Haar in der Suppe suchen” 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
- 28
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: den Nachteil, Haken bei etwas suchen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das Haar in der Suppe suchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [das haːɐ̯ ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈzʊpə ˈzuːxn̩] |
| Letters | 28 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “das Haar in der Suppe suchen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for das Haar in der Suppe suchen is 28 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [das haːɐ̯ ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈzʊpə ˈzuːxn̩]. 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 Nachteil, Haken bei etwas suchen".
No misspelling variants are generated for das Haar in der Suppe suchen 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 das Haar in der Suppe suchen, spelled D-A-S- -H-A-A-R- -I-N- -D-E-R- -S-U-P-P-E- -S-U-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1den Nachteil, Haken bei etwas suchen
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Using “das Haar in der Suppe suchen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-A-S- -H-A-A-R- -I-N- -D-E-R- -S-U-P-P-E- -S-U-C-H-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [das haːɐ̯ ɪn deːɐ̯ ˈzʊpə ˈzuːxn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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