Question: Differential order of a function of a derivative of a function

I am somewhat surprised to find that

PDEtools:-difforder(sin(diff(f(x),x)));

say, returns 1. Does that really make mathematical sense with diff(f(x),x) here being the argument of a function?

PS: I bumped into this issue because I was trying to write down some structured type, or some other matching criterium, that will return true for some scalarly quantity consisting of any number of functions and their derivatives if and only if all arguments to all functions have differential order zero. This criterium would exclude the above function, for instance.

Update: Just for the sake of completeness, or as a service to any visitor to this thread, the above was readily resolved as being due to a blunder of mine, see a comment of mine below. The thread, though, developed into a quite interesting one concerning issues with conserved currents, and related, in the case of Grassmann-odd quantities, issues that are at the time of writing still unresolved.