det har gått troll i
[ˈdɛːt ˈhɑːr ˈɡɔtː ˈtrɔlː ɪ]
The verdict
“det har gått troll i” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - etwas, mit dem man ganz und gar nicht klarkommen kann; etwas ist wie verhext; das sagt man über etwas, das unter dem Einfluss der Macht des Trolls steht, also etwas, mit dem man gar nicht zurechtko...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | det har gått troll i |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈdɛːt ˈhɑːr ˈɡɔtː ˈtrɔlː ɪ] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “det har gått troll i” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for det har gått troll i is 20 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdɛːt ˈhɑːr ˈɡɔtː ˈtrɔlː ɪ]. 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: "etwas, mit dem man ganz und gar nicht klarkommen kann; etwas ist wie verhext; das sagt man über etwas, das unter dem Einfluss der Macht des Trolls steht, also etwas, mit dem man gar nicht zurechtko...".
No misspelling variants are generated for det har gått troll i 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 det har gått troll i, spelled D-E-T- -H-A-R- -G-Å-T-T- -T-R-O-L-L- -I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas, mit dem man ganz und gar nicht klarkommen kann; etwas ist wie verhext; das sagt man über etwas, das unter dem Einfluss der Macht des Trolls steht, also etwas, mit dem man gar nicht zurechtkommen kann; da sitzt der Wurm drin; „da ist der Troll hineingekommen“
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-T- -H-A-R- -G-Å-T-T- -T-R-O-L-L- -I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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