schlapp
[ʃlap]
The verdict
“schlapp” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,112
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - keine Energie habend, erschöpft
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlapp · schlapp · German
schlapp · rank #24,112 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,112
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schiebe
Nearest frequency peer: schiebe (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „schlapp“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schatzmeist…
Schatzmeister
75,893 corpus weight
- Scherer
Scherer
75,892 corpus weight
- scherze
scherze
75,891 corpus weight
- schiebe
schiebe
75,890 corpus weight
- schlapp
schlapp
75,889 corpus weight
- Schleim
Schleim
75,888 corpus weight
What this shows „schlapp“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schlapp |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʃlap] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schlapp“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around schlapp (IPA [ʃlap]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,112 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for schlapp, with forms such as "cshlapp", "scchlapp", and "schalpp". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "schlau", "Schnaps", "schnapp", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is schlapp, spelled S-C-H-L-A-P-P.
Definition
- 1keine Energie habend, erschöpft
- 2locker ohne Spannung herabhängend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schlapp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wegen der Hitze war er ganz schlapp.
Trotz ihrer weiblichen Reize blieb sein Glied schlapp.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshlapp
- scchlapp
- schalpp
- schhlapp
- schlap
- schllapp
- schlpap
- sclhapp
- shclapp
- sschlapp
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schlapp - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "schlapp", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).