die Schnauze halten
[diː ˈʃnaʊ̯t͡sə ˈhaltn̩]
The verdict
“die Schnauze halten” 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) — nichts sagen und still sein; sich zurücknehmen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Schnauze halten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈʃnaʊ̯t͡sə ˈhaltn̩] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “die Schnauze halten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for die Schnauze halten is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈʃnaʊ̯t͡sə ˈhaltn̩]. 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: "nichts sagen und still sein; sich zurücknehmen".
No misspelling variants are generated for die Schnauze halten 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 Schnauze halten, spelled D-I-E- -S-C-H-N-A-U-Z-E- -H-A-L-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nichts sagen und still sein; sich zurücknehmen
Antonyms
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-I-E- -S-C-H-N-A-U-Z-E- -H-A-L-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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