die Wände haben Ohren
Letters
21 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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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].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die Wände haben Ohren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [diː vɛndə haːbn̩ ˈoːʁən] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1man wird belauscht, sensible Informationen sollten nicht oder nur in gedämpftem Tonfall ausgesprochen werden
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