piquer du nez
[pike dy ne]
The verdict
“piquer du nez” 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) - mit dem Kopf vornüberfallen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piquer du nez |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [pike dy ne] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “piquer du nez” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for piquer du nez is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pike dy ne]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for piquer du nez 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 piquer du nez, spelled P-I-Q-U-E-R- -D-U- -N-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit dem Kopf vornüberfallen
- 2den Kopf nach vorn fallen lassen, meist beim Einschlafen; einnicken
- 3vornübersinken, im Sturzflug niedergehen, im Sturzflug heruntergehen
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 “piquer du nez”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-I-Q-U-E-R- -D-U- -N-E-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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