Schlafsucht
[ˈʃlaːfˌzʊxt]
The verdict
“Schlafsucht” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - krankhaftes Bedürfnis, sehr häufig und auch tagsüber zu schlafen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlafsucht · Schlafsucht · German
Schlafsucht · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | Schlafsucht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃlaːfˌzʊxt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schlafsucht“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schlafsucht is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃlaːfˌzʊxt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "krankhaftes Bedürfnis, sehr häufig und auch tagsüber zu schlafen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Schlafsucht, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Schlafsucht, spelled S-C-H-L-A-F-S-U-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1krankhaftes Bedürfnis, sehr häufig und auch tagsüber zu schlafen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schlafsucht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Von Lessings Schlafsucht in seinen späten Jahren, seinem plötzlichen Wegnicken und seinen Absencen haben viele Zeitgenossen berichtet.“
„Wer die Nächte durcharbeiten muss, nimmt Modafinil, ein Medikament gegen krankhafte Schlafsucht (Narkolepsie).“
Synonyms
Antonyms
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.