Schafbock
[ˈʃaːfˌbɔk]
The verdict
“Schafbock” 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) - männliches Schaf
Corpus desk
Index DE-schafbock · Schafbock · German
Schafbock · 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 | Schafbock |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃaːfˌbɔk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schafbock“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schafbock is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃaːfˌbɔk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "männliches Schaf".
Zero misspellings are on record for Schafbock in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schafbock, spelled S-C-H-A-F-B-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1männliches Schaf
Synonyms
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.