schalt vor
The verdict
“schalt vor” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs vorschalten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schalt vor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌʃalt ˈfoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schalt vor” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schalt vor is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʃalt ˈfoːɐ̯]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs vorschalten".
No misspelling variants are generated for schalt vor in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is schalt vor, spelled S-C-H-A-L-T- -V-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs vorschalten
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.
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Using “schalt vor”
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- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-A-L-T- -V-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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