Sauerkohl
[ˈzaʊ̯ɐˌkoːl]
The verdict
“Sauerkohl” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - feingeschnittener, milchgesäuerter Weißkohl
Corpus desk
Index DE-sauerkohl · Sauerkohl · German
Sauerkohl · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sauerkohl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzaʊ̯ɐˌkoːl] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sauerkohl“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sauerkohl is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzaʊ̯ɐˌkoːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "feingeschnittener, milchgesäuerter Weißkohl".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Sauerkohl, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Sauerkohl, spelled S-A-U-E-R-K-O-H-L.
Definition
- 1feingeschnittener, milchgesäuerter Weißkohl
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sauerkohl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sauerkohl ist lecker.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.