passen wie die Faust aufs Auge
The verdict
“passen wie die Faust aufs Auge” 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
- 30
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: ganz und gar nicht zusammenpassen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passen wie die Faust aufs Auge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpasn̩ viː diː faʊ̯st aʊ̯fs ˈaʊ̯ɡə] |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passen wie die Faust aufs Auge” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for passen wie die Faust aufs Auge is 30 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpasn̩ viː diː faʊ̯st aʊ̯fs ˈaʊ̯ɡə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for passen wie die Faust aufs Auge 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 passen wie die Faust aufs Auge, spelled P-A-S-S-E-N- -W-I-E- -D-I-E- -F-A-U-S-T- -A-U-F-S- -A-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ganz und gar nicht zusammenpassen
- 2wunderbar zusammenpassen
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- The one correct German spelling is P-A-S-S-E-N- -W-I-E- -D-I-E- -F-A-U-S-T- -A-U-F-S- -A-U-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpasn̩ viː diː faʊ̯st aʊ̯fs ˈaʊ̯ɡə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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