die Stirn haben
[diː ˈʃtɪʁn ˌhaːbn̩]
The verdict
“die Stirn 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Unverfrorenheit (zu etwas) besitzen, die Frechheit haben, dreist sein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Stirn haben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː ˈʃtɪʁn ˌhaːbn̩] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “die Stirn haben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for die Stirn haben is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː ˈʃtɪʁn ˌhaːbn̩]. 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: "die Unverfrorenheit (zu etwas) besitzen, die Frechheit haben, dreist sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for die Stirn 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 Stirn haben, spelled D-I-E- -S-T-I-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
- 1die Unverfrorenheit (zu etwas) besitzen, die Frechheit haben, dreist sein
This word in other languages
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- The one correct German spelling is D-I-E- -S-T-I-R-N- -H-A-B-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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