Schiltach
[ˈʃɪltax]
The verdict
“Schiltach” is uncommon German (frequency #97,643 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,643
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt in Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-schiltach · Schiltach · German
Schiltach · rank #97,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,643
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schimpfworte
Nearest frequency peer: Schimpfworte (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Schiltach”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Schandtat
Schandtat
2,362 corpus weight
- schaurigen
schaurigen
2,360 corpus weight
- Schiltach
Schiltach
2,358 corpus weight
- Schimpfworte
Schimpfworte
2,357 corpus weight
- schipper
schipper
2,356 corpus weight
- Schmalseite
Schmalseite
2,354 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Schiltach” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schiltach |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃɪltax] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Schiltach” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Schiltach is uncommon German at frequency #97,643 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈʃɪltax]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Stadt in Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Schiltach, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schiltach, spelled S-C-H-I-L-T-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1Stadt in Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Schiltach appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Schiltach liegt in Deutschlands Südwesten.
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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