Scherflein
[ˈʃɛʁflaɪ̯n]
The verdict
“Scherflein” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - historisch, selten, kleine Geldspende, kleiner finanzieller Beitrag
Corpus desk
Index DE-scherflein · Scherflein · German
Scherflein · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | Scherflein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃɛʁflaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Scherflein“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Scherflein is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃɛʁflaɪ̯n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "historisch, selten, kleine Geldspende, kleiner finanzieller Beitrag".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Scherflein in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Scherflein, spelled S-C-H-E-R-F-L-E-I-N.
Definition
- 1historisch, selten, kleine Geldspende, kleiner finanzieller Beitrag
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Scherflein appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er trägt sein Scherflein dazu bei. (Er gibt einen kleinen Teil zu einem größeren Ganzen.)
„Durch allerlei Wallfahrer-Nippes kann der geneigte Pilger sein Scherflein zur Finanzierung des voraussichtlich knapp 100 Millionen Euro teuren Weltjugendtags beisteuern.“
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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.