einen Kloß im Hals haben
The verdict
“einen Kloß im Hals 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
- 24
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: vor lauter Gefühlen, zum Beispiel vor Aufregung, Angst, Schmerz oder Rührung, nicht sprechen, atmen oder singen können
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einen Kloß im Hals haben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “einen Kloß im Hals haben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einen Kloß im Hals haben is 24 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "vor lauter Gefühlen, zum Beispiel vor Aufregung, Angst, Schmerz oder Rührung, nicht sprechen, atmen oder singen können".
No misspelling variants are generated for einen Kloß im Hals 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 Kloß im Hals haben, spelled E-I-N-E-N- -K-L-O-S-S- -I-M- -H-A-L-S- -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
- 1vor lauter Gefühlen, zum Beispiel vor Aufregung, Angst, Schmerz oder Rührung, nicht sprechen, atmen oder singen können
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Using “einen Kloß im Hals haben”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E-N- -K-L-O-S-S- -I-M- -H-A-L-S- -H-A-B-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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