die Nase vorn haben
[diː ˈnaːzə fɔʁn ˈhaːbn̩]
The verdict
“die Nase vorn haben” 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
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - bei einem Vergleich besser sein, einen Vorsprung haben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Nase vorn haben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈnaːzə fɔʁn ˈhaːbn̩] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “die Nase vorn haben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for die Nase vorn haben is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈnaːzə fɔʁn ˈhaːbn̩]. 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: "bei einem Vergleich besser sein, einen Vorsprung haben".
No misspelling variants are generated for die Nase vorn haben 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 die Nase vorn haben, spelled D-I-E- -N-A-S-E- -V-O-R-N- -H-A-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bei einem Vergleich besser sein, einen Vorsprung haben
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.
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Using “die Nase vorn haben”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-I-E- -N-A-S-E- -V-O-R-N- -H-A-B-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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