Geh, du alter Esel, hole Fische
[ɡeː duː ˈaltɐ ˈeːzl̩ ˈhoːlə ˈfɪʃə]
The verdict
“Geh, du alter Esel, hole Fische” 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
- 31
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Merkspruch für die Dur-Tonarten mit ♯-Vorzeichen: G-Dur (1♯), D-Dur (2♯), A-Dur (3♯), E-Dur (4♯), H-Dur (5♯) und Fis-Dur (6♯)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Geh, du alter Esel, hole Fische |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ɡeː duː ˈaltɐ ˈeːzl̩ ˈhoːlə ˈfɪʃə] |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Geh, du alter Esel, hole Fische” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Geh, du alter Esel, hole Fische is 31 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡeː duː ˈaltɐ ˈeːzl̩ ˈhoːlə ˈfɪʃə]. 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: "Merkspruch für die Dur-Tonarten mit ♯-Vorzeichen: G-Dur (1♯), D-Dur (2♯), A-Dur (3♯), E-Dur (4♯), H-Dur (5♯) und Fis-Dur (6♯)".
No misspelling variants are generated for Geh, du alter Esel, hole Fische 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 Geh, du alter Esel, hole Fische, spelled G-E-H-,- -D-U- -A-L-T-E-R- -E-S-E-L-,- -H-O-L-E- -F-I-S-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Merkspruch für die Dur-Tonarten mit ♯-Vorzeichen: G-Dur (1♯), D-Dur (2♯), A-Dur (3♯), E-Dur (4♯), H-Dur (5♯) und Fis-Dur (6♯)
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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- The one correct German spelling is G-E-H-,- -D-U- -A-L-T-E-R- -E-S-E-L-,- -H-O-L-E- -F-I-S-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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