fehl am Platz
[ˈfeːl am ˈplat͡s]
The verdict
“fehl am Platz” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - irgendwo nicht hingehörend, fehlplatziert; an einer bestimmten Stelle unangemessen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fehl am Platz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfeːl am ˈplat͡s] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fehl am Platz” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for fehl am Platz is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfeːl am ˈplat͡s]. 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: "irgendwo nicht hingehörend, fehlplatziert; an einer bestimmten Stelle unangemessen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fehl am Platz, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct German form is fehl am Platz, spelled F-E-H-L- -A-M- -P-L-A-T-Z.
Definition
- 1irgendwo nicht hingehörend, fehlplatziert; an einer bestimmten Stelle unangemessen
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fehl am Platz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is F-E-H-L- -A-M- -P-L-A-T-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈfeːl am ˈplat͡s] (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.