seine Klappe halten
[ˈzaɪ̯nə ˈklapə ˈhaltn̩]
The verdict
“seine Klappe halten” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - still sein, nichts sagen, nicht weiter sprechen
Corpus desk
Index DE-seine-klappe-halten · seine Klappe halten · German
seine Klappe halten · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | seine Klappe halten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈzaɪ̯nə ˈklapə ˈhaltn̩] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „seine Klappe halten“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
seine Klappe halten is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [ˈzaɪ̯nə ˈklapə ˈhaltn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "still sein, nichts sagen, nicht weiter sprechen".
No misspelling variants are generated for seine Klappe halten in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is seine Klappe halten, spelled S-E-I-N-E- -K-L-A-P-P-E- -H-A-L-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1still sein, nichts sagen, nicht weiter sprechen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how seine Klappe halten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Halt endlich deine Klappe!
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