Scherbe
[ˈʃɛʁbə]
The verdict
“Scherbe” is uncommon German (frequency #82,087 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,087
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein größeres Bruchstück von einem Gegenstand, der aus Glas, Ton oder Porzellan ist/war
Corpus desk
Index DE-scherbe · Scherbe · German
Scherbe · rank #82,087 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,087
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Scharten
Nearest frequency peer: Scharten (-2 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 „Scherbe“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schafherde
Schafherde
17,918 corpus weight
- schallend
schallend
17,917 corpus weight
- Scharten
Scharten
17,916 corpus weight
- Scherbe
Scherbe
17,914 corpus weight
- scheuch
scheuch
17,912 corpus weight
- Schlafgemach
Schlafgemach
17,910 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Scherbe“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Scherbe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃɛʁbə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Scherbe“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Scherbe is uncommon German at frequency #82,087 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃɛʁbə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein größeres Bruchstück von einem Gegenstand, der aus Glas, Ton oder Porzellan ist/war".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Scherbe, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Scherbe, spelled S-C-H-E-R-B-E.
Definition
- 1ein größeres Bruchstück von einem Gegenstand, der aus Glas, Ton oder Porzellan ist/war
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Scherbe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Boden lag voller Scherben.
„Jays Malerei war ein Tanz von Fragmenten zum Rhythmus der Scherben.“
Synonyms
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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