Tomaten auf den Augen haben
[toˈmaːtn aʊ̯f deːn ˈaʊ̯ɡən ˈhaːbn]
The verdict
“Tomaten auf den Augen haben” 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
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - etwas Offensichtliches nicht sehen oder nicht sehen wollen, etwas übersehen, nicht bemerken
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tomaten auf den Augen haben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [toˈmaːtn aʊ̯f deːn ˈaʊ̯ɡən ˈhaːbn] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Tomaten auf den Augen haben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Tomaten auf den Augen haben is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [toˈmaːtn aʊ̯f deːn ˈaʊ̯ɡən ˈhaːbn]. 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: "etwas Offensichtliches nicht sehen oder nicht sehen wollen, etwas übersehen, nicht bemerken".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tomaten auf den Augen haben 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 Tomaten auf den Augen haben, spelled T-O-M-A-T-E-N- -A-U-F- -D-E-N- -A-U-G-E-N- -H-A-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas Offensichtliches nicht sehen oder nicht sehen wollen, etwas übersehen, nicht bemerken
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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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- The one correct German spelling is T-O-M-A-T-E-N- -A-U-F- -D-E-N- -A-U-G-E-N- -H-A-B-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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