Schabbat
[ˈʃabat]
The verdict
“Schabbat” is uncommon German (frequency #83,251 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,251
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nebenform von Sabbat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schabbat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃabat] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schabbat” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Schabbat is uncommon German at frequency #83,251 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃabat]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nebenform von Sabbat".
Schabbat has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 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 Schabbat, spelled S-C-H-A-B-B-A-T.
Definition
- 1Nebenform von Sabbat
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Schabbat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-A-B-B-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃabat] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.