Schafherde
[ˈʃaːfˌheːɐ̯də]
The verdict
“Schafherde” is uncommon German (frequency #82,083 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,083
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Gruppe (Herde) von zusammenlebenden Schafen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schafherde · Schafherde · German
Schafherde · rank #82,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,083
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH satanischen
Nearest frequency peer: satanischen (-1 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 „Schafherde“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sarkastische
sarkastische
17,921 corpus weight
- satanische
satanische
17,920 corpus weight
- satanischen
satanischen
17,919 corpus weight
- Schafherde
Schafherde
17,918 corpus weight
- schallend
schallend
17,917 corpus weight
- Scharten
Scharten
17,916 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schafherde“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schafherde |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃaːfˌheːɐ̯də] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schafherde“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schafherde is uncommon German at frequency #82,083 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃaːfˌheːɐ̯də]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Gruppe (Herde) von zusammenlebenden Schafen".
Schafherde has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Schafherde, spelled S-C-H-A-F-H-E-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1eine Gruppe (Herde) von zusammenlebenden Schafen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schafherde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Schon mit zehn Jahren erkundete Succow als Hütejunge einer großen Schafherde jedes Detail der brandenburgischen Äcker, Wiesen und Feuchtgebiete.“
„Vorbei an Korn- und Baumwollfeldern, schattenspendenden Bäumen und großen Schafherden ziehen sie in die Ortschaft Taghelel ein.“
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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