einen Frosch im Hals haben
\ˈaɪ.nən frɔʃ ʔɪm ˌhals ˈhaː.bən\
The verdict
“einen Frosch im Hals haben” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 26
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avoir un chat dans la gorge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einen Frosch im Hals haben |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈaɪ.nən frɔʃ ʔɪm ˌhals ˈhaː.bən\ |
| Letters | 26 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “einen Frosch im Hals haben” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for einen Frosch im Hals haben is 26 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈaɪ.nən frɔʃ ʔɪm ˌhals ˈhaː.bən\. 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: "Avoir un chat dans la gorge.".
No misspelling variants are generated for einen Frosch im Hals haben in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is einen Frosch im Hals haben, spelled E-I-N-E-N- -F-R-O-S-C-H- -I-M- -H-A-L-S- -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
- 1Avoir un chat dans la gorge.
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 French spelling is E-I-N-E-N- -F-R-O-S-C-H- -I-M- -H-A-L-S- -H-A-B-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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