Schärpe
[ˈʃɛʁpə]
The verdict
“Schärpe” is uncommon German (frequency #54,068 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,068
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - breites, um die Hüften oder schräg um Schulter und Brust getragenes Schmuckband; oft als Teil einer Uniform
Corpus desk
Index DE-scharpe · Schärpe · German
Schärpe · rank #54,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,068
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schämst
Nearest frequency peer: schämst (-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 „Schärpe“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schweigende
schweigende
45,936 corpus weight
- Schwuchteln
Schwuchteln
45,935 corpus weight
- schämst
schämst
45,934 corpus weight
- Schärpe
Schärpe
45,933 corpus weight
- seems
seems
45,932 corpus weight
- Seitenwand
Seitenwand
45,931 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schärpe“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schärpe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃɛʁpə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schärpe“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schärpe is uncommon German at frequency #54,068 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃɛʁpə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "breites, um die Hüften oder schräg um Schulter und Brust getragenes Schmuckband; oft als Teil einer Uniform".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Schärpe, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct German form is Schärpe, spelled S-C-H-Ä-R-P-E.
Definition
- 1breites, um die Hüften oder schräg um Schulter und Brust getragenes Schmuckband; oft als Teil einer Uniform
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schärpe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Prinzessin erschien mit der historischen „Connaught-Tiara“, einem Erbstück, das seit 1905 im Besitz der Familie ist, der hellblauen Schärpe des „Seraphinenorden“, dem Hausorden der schwedischen Royals, und tropfenförmigen Perlenohrringen.
„Auf Bildern ist er immer in Uniform, mit Orden, Schulterklappen und Schärpe zu sehen.“
This word in other languages
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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