die Wände haben Ohren

/[diː vɛndə haːbn̩ ˈoːʁən]/ phrase

Letters

21 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

die Wände haben Ohren is aGermanphrase. It means: man wird belauscht, sensible Informationen sollten nicht oder nur in gedämpftem Tonfall ausgesprochen werden Pronounced [diː vɛndə haːbn̩ ˈoːʁən].

Key facts for die Wände haben Ohren
PropertyValue
Headworddie Wände haben Ohren
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[diː vɛndə haːbn̩ ˈoːʁən]
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

die Wände haben Ohren is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for die Wände haben Ohren is 21 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [diː vɛndə haːbn̩ ˈoːʁən]. 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: "man wird belauscht, sensible Informationen sollten nicht oder nur in gedämpftem Tonfall ausgesprochen werden".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for die Wände haben Ohren in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Wände haben Ohren, spelled D-I-E- -W-Ä-N-D-E- -H-A-B-E-N- -O-H-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    man wird belauscht, sensible Informationen sollten nicht oder nur in gedämpftem Tonfall ausgesprochen werden

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "die Wände haben Ohren"?
"die Wände haben Ohren" is spelled D-I-E- -W-Ä-N-D-E- -H-A-B-E-N- -O-H-R-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [diː vɛndə haːbn̩ ˈoːʁən].
What does "die Wände haben Ohren" mean?
As a phrase, "die Wände haben Ohren" means: man wird belauscht, sensible Informationen sollten nicht oder nur in gedämpftem Tonfall ausgesprochen werden
How do you pronounce "die Wände haben Ohren"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "die Wände haben Ohren" is [diː vɛndə haːbn̩ ˈoːʁən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "die Wände haben Ohren" come from?
"die Wände haben Ohren" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.