scharfen Löffel
[ˌʃaʁfn̩ ˈlœfl̩]
The verdict
“scharfen Löffel” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Akkusativ Singular der starken Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scharfen Löffel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌʃaʁfn̩ ˈlœfl̩] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scharfen Löffel” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for scharfen Löffel is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʃaʁfn̩ ˈlœfl̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for scharfen Löffel 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 scharfen Löffel, spelled S-C-H-A-R-F-E-N- -L-Ö-F-F-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Akkusativ Singular der starken Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
- 2Dativ Singular der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
- 3Akkusativ Singular der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
- 4Nominativ Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
- 5Genitiv Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
- 6Akkusativ Plural der schwachen Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
- 7Dativ Singular der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
- 8Akkusativ Singular der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
- 9Nominativ Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
- 10Genitiv Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
- 11Akkusativ Plural der gemischten Deklination des Substantivs scharfer Löffel
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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- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-A-R-F-E-N- -L-Ö-F-F-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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