das Maul halten
Letters
15 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
das Maul halten is aGermanphrase. It means: still sein; den Mund nicht zum Reden öffnen Pronounced [das maʊ̯l ˈhaltn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | das Maul halten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [das maʊ̯l ˈhaltn̩] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for das Maul halten is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [das maʊ̯l ˈhaltn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for das Maul halten 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 Maul halten, spelled D-A-S- -M-A-U-L- -H-A-L-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1still sein; den Mund nicht zum Reden öffnen
- 2nicht irgendjemandem mitteilen, was man über eine bestimmte Angelegenheit weiß
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