das Maul halten
[das maʊ̯l ˈhaltn̩]
The verdict
“das Maul halten” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - still sein; den Mund nicht zum Reden öffnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-das-maul-halten · das Maul halten · German
das Maul halten · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „das Maul halten“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
das Maul halten is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [das maʊ̯l ˈhaltn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
das Maul halten doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is das Maul halten, spelled D-A-S- -M-A-U-L- -H-A-L-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1still sein; den Mund nicht zum Reden öffnen
- 2nicht irgendjemandem mitteilen, was man über eine bestimmte Angelegenheit weiß
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how das Maul halten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„›Du willst also, dass wir dir den Gnadenschuss verpassen, ja?‹, stieß ich überreizt hervor. ›Okay, du kannst es haben, wenn das die einzige Möglichkeit ist, dass du das Maul hältst! […]‹“
Kannst du nicht einfach mal das Maul halten?
This word in other languages
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.