Schlafender
[ˈʃlaːfn̩dɐ]
The verdict
“Schlafender” is uncommon German (frequency #88,249 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,249
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die sich im Zustand des Schlafes befindet
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlafender · Schlafender · German
Schlafender · rank #88,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,249
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schlagbaum
Nearest frequency peer: Schlagbaum (+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 “Schlafender”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- scheinheili…
scheinheiligen
11,757 corpus weight
- schiefläuft
schiefläuft
11,755 corpus weight
- Schisser
Schisser
11,754 corpus weight
- Schlafender
Schlafender
11,752 corpus weight
- Schlagbaum
Schlagbaum
11,751 corpus weight
- Schlüsselpo…
Schlüsselpositionen
11,747 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Schlafender” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schlafender |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃlaːfn̩dɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Schlafender” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Schlafender is uncommon German at frequency #88,249 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃlaːfn̩dɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die sich im Zustand des Schlafes befindet".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schlafender, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schlafender, spelled S-C-H-L-A-F-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die sich im Zustand des Schlafes befindet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schlafender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Schlafende gibt jegliche Kontrolle über sein Dasein ab, darf sich selbst verlieren und mit sich jegliche Betriebsamkeit und Bestimmung.“
„Ein Schlafender merkt das unbewusste Einatmen des tödlichen Gases nicht – er erleidet einen Atemstillstand, der zum Tod führt.“
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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