Tacheles reden

/[ˈtaxələs ˈʁeːdn̩]/ phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

German

word origin

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0

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Tacheles reden is aGermanphrase. It means: (jemandem gegenüber) ganz offen und freimütig seine Meinung äußern Pronounced [ˈtaxələs ˈʁeːdn̩].

Key facts for Tacheles reden
PropertyValue
HeadwordTacheles reden
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈtaxələs ˈʁeːdn̩]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Tacheles reden is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Tacheles reden is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtaxələs ˈʁeːdn̩]. 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: "(jemandem gegenüber) ganz offen und freimütig seine Meinung äußern".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Tacheles reden in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Tacheles reden, spelled T-A-C-H-E-L-E-S- -R-E-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (jemandem gegenüber) ganz offen und freimütig seine Meinung äußern

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How do you spell "Tacheles reden"?
"Tacheles reden" is spelled T-A-C-H-E-L-E-S- -R-E-D-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈtaxələs ˈʁeːdn̩].
What does "Tacheles reden" mean?
As a phrase, "Tacheles reden" means: (jemandem gegenüber) ganz offen und freimütig seine Meinung äußern
How do you pronounce "Tacheles reden"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Tacheles reden" is [ˈtaxələs ˈʁeːdn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Tacheles reden" come from?
"Tacheles reden" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.