Schäfchenwolke
[ˈʃɛːfçənˌvɔlkə]
The verdict
“Schäfchenwolke” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - meist weiße Wolke, die sich in großer Höhe befindet und die durchscheinend ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-schafchenwolke · Schäfchenwolke · German
Schäfchenwolke · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 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 | Schäfchenwolke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃɛːfçənˌvɔlkə] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schäfchenwolke“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schäfchenwolke is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃɛːfçənˌvɔlkə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "meist weiße Wolke, die sich in großer Höhe befindet und die durchscheinend ist".
Schäfchenwolke has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schäfchenwolke, spelled S-C-H-Ä-F-C-H-E-N-W-O-L-K-E.
Definition
- 1meist weiße Wolke, die sich in großer Höhe befindet und die durchscheinend ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schäfchenwolke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Himmel war voll glänzend weißer Schäfchenwolken.“
„Mein Blick folgte den Schäfchenwolken im sonst klaren Blau über uns.“
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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.