die Fresse halten
[diː ˈfʁɛsə ˈhaltn̩]
The verdict
“die Fresse 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nichts sagen, nicht weiter sprechen
Corpus desk
Index DE-die-fresse-halten · die Fresse halten · German
die Fresse halten · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | die Fresse halten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈfʁɛsə ˈhaltn̩] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „die Fresse halten“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
die Fresse halten is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [diː ˈfʁɛsə ˈhaltn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nichts sagen, nicht weiter sprechen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for die Fresse halten, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is die Fresse halten, spelled D-I-E- -F-R-E-S-S-E- -H-A-L-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1nichts sagen, nicht weiter sprechen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how die Fresse halten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Halt endlich die Fresse!
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