Scherbe
[ˈʃɛʁbə]
The verdict
“Scherbe” is uncommon German (frequency #82,087 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,087
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ein größeres Bruchstück von einem Gegenstand, der aus Glas, Ton oder Porzellan ist/war
| 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) |
Where “Scherbe” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Scherbe is uncommon German at frequency #82,087 among 107,600 “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
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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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Using “Scherbe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-E-R-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.