scharfkantig
[ˈʃaʁfˌkantɪç]
The verdict
“scharfkantig” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit scharfen Kanten ausgestattet; mit scharfen Kanten versehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-scharfkantig · scharfkantig · German
scharfkantig · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | scharfkantig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃaʁfˌkantɪç] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “scharfkantig” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
scharfkantig is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃaʁfˌkantɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit scharfen Kanten ausgestattet; mit scharfen Kanten versehen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scharfkantig, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is scharfkantig, spelled S-C-H-A-R-F-K-A-N-T-I-G.
Definition
- 1mit scharfen Kanten ausgestattet; mit scharfen Kanten versehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scharfkantig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Stundenlang donnern die Wagen über Ebenen, auf denen scharfkantige Steine verstreut liegen.“
„Auch ist nicht klar, ob sie tatsächlich schon Werkzeuge herstellen konnten, oder scharfkantige Steine gefunden und zum Fleischschneiden benutzt haben.“
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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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