noch grün hinter den Ohren sein
[nɔx ɡʁyːn ˈhɪntɐ deːn ˈoːʁən zaɪ̯n]
The verdict
“noch grün hinter den Ohren sein” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 31
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - noch jung, unerfahren sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-noch-grun-hinter-den-ohr · noch grün hinter den Ohren sein · German
noch grün hinter den Ohren sein · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 31 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | noch grün hinter den Ohren sein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [nɔx ɡʁyːn ˈhɪntɐ deːn ˈoːʁən zaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 31 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „noch grün hinter den Ohren sein“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
noch grün hinter den Ohren sein is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [nɔx ɡʁyːn ˈhɪntɐ deːn ˈoːʁən zaɪ̯n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "noch jung, unerfahren sein".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for noch grün hinter den Ohren sein, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is noch grün hinter den Ohren sein, spelled N-O-C-H- -G-R-Ü-N- -H-I-N-T-E-R- -D-E-N- -O-H-R-E-N- -S-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1noch jung, unerfahren sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how noch grün hinter den Ohren sein appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der neue Lehrling ist noch grün hinter den Ohren, weiß aber schon alles besser.
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This word in other languages
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.