jemandem ein Ohr abkauen

/[…]/ phrase

Letters

24 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

jemandem ein Ohr abkauen is aGermanphrase. It means: dem Gesprächspartner mit endlosem Reden auf die Nerven gehen (besonders am Telefon) Pronounced […].

Key facts for jemandem ein Ohr abkauen
PropertyValue
Headwordjemandem ein Ohr abkauen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

jemandem ein Ohr abkauen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for jemandem ein Ohr abkauen is 24 letters long, classified as aphrase, 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: "dem Gesprächspartner mit endlosem Reden auf die Nerven gehen (besonders am Telefon)".

No misspelling variants are generated for jemandem ein Ohr abkauen 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 jemandem ein Ohr abkauen, spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -E-I-N- -O-H-R- -A-B-K-A-U-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    dem Gesprächspartner mit endlosem Reden auf die Nerven gehen (besonders am Telefon)

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jemandem ein Ohr abkauen"?
"jemandem ein Ohr abkauen" is spelled J-E-M-A-N-D-E-M- -E-I-N- -O-H-R- -A-B-K-A-U-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "jemandem ein Ohr abkauen" mean?
As a phrase, "jemandem ein Ohr abkauen" means: dem Gesprächspartner mit endlosem Reden auf die Nerven gehen (besonders am Telefon)
How do you pronounce "jemandem ein Ohr abkauen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jemandem ein Ohr abkauen" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jemandem ein Ohr abkauen" come from?
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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.