schanz
[ʃant͡s]
The verdict
“schanz” is uncommon German (frequency #55,677 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,677
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schanzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schanz · schanz · German
schanz · rank #55,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,677
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schadlos
Nearest frequency peer: schadlos (-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 „schanz“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Sammelklage
Sammelklage
44,328 corpus weight
- Sanaa
Sanaa
44,327 corpus weight
- sari
sari
44,326 corpus weight
- schadlos
schadlos
44,325 corpus weight
- schanz
schanz
44,324 corpus weight
- Schauspiels…
Schauspielschule
44,323 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schanz“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schanz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃant͡s] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schanz“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schanz is uncommon German at frequency #55,677 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃant͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schanzen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for schanz, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is schanz, spelled S-C-H-A-N-Z.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schanzen
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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