dem Fass die Krone ins Gesicht schlagen
[deːm fas di ˈkʁoːnə ɪns ɡəˈzɪçt ˈʃlaːɡŋ]
The verdict
“dem Fass die Krone ins Gesicht schlagen” 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
- 39
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — der Gipfel der Unverschämtheit sein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dem Fass die Krone ins Gesicht schlagen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [deːm fas di ˈkʁoːnə ɪns ɡəˈzɪçt ˈʃlaːɡŋ] |
| Letters | 39 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dem Fass die Krone ins Gesicht schlagen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for dem Fass die Krone ins Gesicht schlagen is 39 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deːm fas di ˈkʁoːnə ɪns ɡəˈzɪçt ˈʃlaːɡŋ]. 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: "der Gipfel der Unverschämtheit sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for dem Fass die Krone ins Gesicht schlagen 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 dem Fass die Krone ins Gesicht schlagen, spelled D-E-M- -F-A-S-S- -D-I-E- -K-R-O-N-E- -I-N-S- -G-E-S-I-C-H-T- -S-C-H-L-A-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Gipfel der Unverschämtheit sein
Synonyms
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.
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- The one correct German spelling is D-E-M- -F-A-S-S- -D-I-E- -K-R-O-N-E- -I-N-S- -G-E-S-I-C-H-T- -S-C-H-L-A-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [deːm fas di ˈkʁoːnə ɪns ɡəˈzɪçt ˈʃlaːɡŋ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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