schlanken
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,709
in German word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
schlanken is anGermanadj. It means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank Pronounced [ˈʃlaŋkn̩]. Often confused with Schranke and schlauen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schlanken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈʃlaŋkn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schlanken is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃlaŋkn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,709 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for schlanken, with forms such as "cshlanken", "scchlanken", and "schalnken". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Schranke", "schlauen", "schwanke", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is schlanken, spelled S-C-H-L-A-N-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 4Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 5Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 6Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 8Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 9Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 10Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 11Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
- 12Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schlank
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshlanken,scchlanken,schalnken,schhlanken,schlaknen,schlanekn,schlankenn,schlankken,schlankne,schlannken,schllanken,schlnaken,sclhanken,shclanken,sschlanken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for schlanken
Misspelling Variants of "schlanken"
Frequency rank: #19,709 in German
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Nearby German words
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