schadhaft
[ˈʃaːthaft]
The verdict
“schadhaft” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - eine oder mehrere Beschädigungen aufweisend, nicht mehr im besten Zustand
Corpus desk
Index DE-schadhaft · schadhaft · German
schadhaft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | schadhaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃaːthaft] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schadhaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schadhaft is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃaːthaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine oder mehrere Beschädigungen aufweisend, nicht mehr im besten Zustand".
schadhaft has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is schadhaft, spelled S-C-H-A-D-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1eine oder mehrere Beschädigungen aufweisend, nicht mehr im besten Zustand
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how schadhaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nach den Osterferien soll es zügig losgehen, schadhafte Straßen im Echinger Ortsgebiet zu sanieren.“
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.