schalkhaft
[ˈʃalkhaft]
The verdict
“schalkhaft” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich verhaltend wie ein Schalk, harmlose Späße machend
Corpus desk
Index DE-schalkhaft · schalkhaft · German
schalkhaft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | schalkhaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃalkhaft] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schalkhaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schalkhaft is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃalkhaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich verhaltend wie ein Schalk, harmlose Späße machend".
schalkhaft doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is schalkhaft, spelled S-C-H-A-L-K-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1sich verhaltend wie ein Schalk, harmlose Späße machend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how schalkhaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Amor, oft auch Cupido oder Cupidus genannt, ist in der römischen Mythologie der Gott und die Personifikation der Liebe (genauer: des Sichverliebens) und wird als halbwüchsiger Knabe nicht ohne schalkhafte Bosheit aufgefasst, der mit seinen Pfeilen ins Herz trifft und dadurch die Liebe erweckt.“
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.