einen Frosch im Halse haben
The verdict
“einen Frosch im Halse 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
- 27
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: vorübergehend heiser sein, eine belegte Stimme haben
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einen Frosch im Halse haben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [aɪ̯nən fʁɔʃ ɪm ˈhalzə ˈhabm̩] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “einen Frosch im Halse haben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einen Frosch im Halse haben is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɪ̯nən fʁɔʃ ɪm ˈhalzə ˈhabm̩]. 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: "vorübergehend heiser sein, eine belegte Stimme haben".
No misspelling variants are generated for einen Frosch im Halse 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 einen Frosch im Halse haben, spelled E-I-N-E-N- -F-R-O-S-C-H- -I-M- -H-A-L-S-E- -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
- 1vorübergehend heiser sein, eine belegte Stimme haben
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Using “einen Frosch im Halse haben”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E-N- -F-R-O-S-C-H- -I-M- -H-A-L-S-E- -H-A-B-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aɪ̯nən fʁɔʃ ɪm ˈhalzə ˈhabm̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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