Sauertopf
[ˈzaʊ̯ɐˌtɔp͡f]
The verdict
“Sauertopf” 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) - Person, die immer schlechte Laune hat und wenig Freude am Leben zeigt
Corpus desk
Index DE-sauertopf · Sauertopf · German
Sauertopf · 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 | Sauertopf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzaʊ̯ɐˌtɔp͡f] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sauertopf“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sauertopf is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzaʊ̯ɐˌtɔp͡f]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die immer schlechte Laune hat und wenig Freude am Leben zeigt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Sauertopf in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Sauertopf, spelled S-A-U-E-R-T-O-P-F.
Definition
- 1Person, die immer schlechte Laune hat und wenig Freude am Leben zeigt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sauertopf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Tolldrastische Geschichten: wie sie in den Abteien und Klöstern der Touraine gesammelt und ans Licht gebracht der edle Herr Honoré de Balzac, zu Ergötzen, Kurzweil und Erbauung aller derer Pantagruelisten und mitnichten der Banausen und griesgrämigen Sauertöpfe.“
„Andernfalls droht ein Ende im Dauerhader oder als Sauertopf.“
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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.