einen Kloß im Hals haben

/[…]/ phrase

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

Key facts for einen Kloß im Hals haben
PropertyValue
Headwordeinen Kloß im Hals haben
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “einen Kloß im Hals haben” sits in German frequency

einen Kloß im Hals haben falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    vor lauter Gefühlen, zum Beispiel vor Aufregung, Angst, Schmerz oder Rührung, nicht sprechen, atmen oder singen können

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "einen Kloß im Hals haben"?
"einen Kloß im Hals haben" is spelled E-I-N-E-N- -K-L-O-SS- -I-M- -H-A-L-S- -H-A-B-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "einen Kloß im Hals haben" mean?
As a phrase, "einen Kloß im Hals haben" means: vor lauter Gefühlen, zum Beispiel vor Aufregung, Angst, Schmerz oder Rührung, nicht sprechen, atmen oder singen können
How do you pronounce "einen Kloß im Hals haben"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "einen Kloß im Hals haben" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "einen Kloß im Hals haben" come from?
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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.
  • Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.