ein Hintertürchen offenhalten

/[aɪ̯n ˈhɪntɐˌtyːɐ̯çən ˈɔfn̩ˌhaltn̩]/ phrase

Letters

29 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

ein Hintertürchen offenhalten is aGermanphrase. It means: sich alle Möglichkeiten offenhalten; sich nicht festlegen, unverbindlich bleiben Pronounced [aɪ̯n ˈhɪntɐˌtyːɐ̯çən ˈɔfn̩ˌhaltn̩].

Key facts for ein Hintertürchen offenhalten
PropertyValue
Headwordein Hintertürchen offenhalten
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[aɪ̯n ˈhɪntɐˌtyːɐ̯çən ˈɔfn̩ˌhaltn̩]
Letters29
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ein Hintertürchen offenhalten is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ein Hintertürchen offenhalten is 29 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɪ̯n ˈhɪntɐˌtyːɐ̯çən ˈɔfn̩ˌhaltn̩]. 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: "sich alle Möglichkeiten offenhalten; sich nicht festlegen, unverbindlich bleiben".

No misspelling variants are generated for ein Hintertürchen offenhalten 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 ein Hintertürchen offenhalten, spelled E-I-N- -H-I-N-T-E-R-T-Ü-R-C-H-E-N- -O-F-F-E-N-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

  1. 1
    sich alle Möglichkeiten offenhalten; sich nicht festlegen, unverbindlich bleiben

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ein Hintertürchen offenhalten"?
"ein Hintertürchen offenhalten" is spelled E-I-N- -H-I-N-T-E-R-T-Ü-R-C-H-E-N- -O-F-F-E-N-H-A-L-T-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [aɪ̯n ˈhɪntɐˌtyːɐ̯çən ˈɔfn̩ˌhaltn̩].
What does "ein Hintertürchen offenhalten" mean?
As a phrase, "ein Hintertürchen offenhalten" means: sich alle Möglichkeiten offenhalten; sich nicht festlegen, unverbindlich bleiben
How do you pronounce "ein Hintertürchen offenhalten"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ein Hintertürchen offenhalten" is [aɪ̯n ˈhɪntɐˌtyːɐ̯çən ˈɔfn̩ˌhaltn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ein Hintertürchen offenhalten" come from?
"ein Hintertürchen offenhalten" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.