schlaff
[ʃlaf]
The verdict
“schlaff” is uncommon German (frequency #50,024 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,024
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne Festigkeit, ohne Spannung
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlaff · schlaff · German
schlaff · rank #50,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,024
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schielen
Nearest frequency peer: schielen (-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 “schlaff”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Schellenberg
Schellenberg
49,979 corpus weight
- schielen
schielen
49,978 corpus weight
- schlaff
schlaff
49,977 corpus weight
- Schlüsselbu…
Schlüsselbund
49,976 corpus weight
- schnack
schnack
49,975 corpus weight
- Schrobenhau…
Schrobenhausen
49,974 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “schlaff” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schlaff |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʃlaf] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “schlaff” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
schlaff is uncommon German at frequency #50,024 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ʃlaf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ohne Festigkeit, ohne Spannung".
Zero misspellings are on record for schlaff in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is schlaff, spelled S-C-H-L-A-F-F.
Definition
- 1ohne Festigkeit, ohne Spannung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schlaff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er gab mir seine schlaffe Hand.
„Die Hemden, die sie am Vortag von den Somaliern bekommen haben, hängen schlaff an ihren Körpern. Ausgemergelte Gesichter, die verwilderten Bärte bereits etwas gestutzt.“
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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