Schabe
[ˈʃaːbə]
The verdict
“Schabe” is uncommon German (frequency #97,637 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,637
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Ordnung der Insekten
Corpus desk
Index DE-schabe · Schabe · German
Schabe · rank #97,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,637
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sauhaufen
Nearest frequency peer: Sauhaufen (-2 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Schabe“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sattes
sattes
2,368 corpus weight
- Saubermann
Saubermann
2,367 corpus weight
- Sauhaufen
Sauhaufen
2,366 corpus weight
- Schabe
Schabe
2,364 corpus weight
- Schandtat
Schandtat
2,362 corpus weight
- schaurigen
schaurigen
2,360 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schabe“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schabe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃaːbə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schabe“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schabe is uncommon German at frequency #97,637 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃaːbə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Ordnung der Insekten".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schabe, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schabe, spelled S-C-H-A-B-E.
Definition
- 1eine Ordnung der Insekten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schabe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Küche war voller Schaben.
„Biologisch betrachtet handelt es sich bei den Schaben um eine Gruppe der Insekten mit 3500 bekannten Arten und 28 Familien.“
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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