auf den Keks gehen
The verdict
“auf den Keks gehen” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: irritar muito alguém
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | auf den Keks gehen |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /aʊ̯f deːn keːks ˈɡeːən/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “auf den Keks gehen” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for auf den Keks gehen is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aʊ̯f deːn keːks ˈɡeːən/ ouvir^(fonte ?). It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for auf den Keks gehen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese 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 Portuguese form is auf den Keks gehen, spelled A-U-F- -D-E-N- -K-E-K-S- -G-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1irritar muito alguém
- 2dar nos nervos
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Using “auf den Keks gehen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-U-F- -D-E-N- -K-E-K-S- -G-E-H-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aʊ̯f deːn keːks ˈɡeːən/ ouvir^(fonte ?) (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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