schleck
[ʃlɛk]
The verdict
“schleck” is uncommon German (frequency #82,093 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,093
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schlecken
Corpus desk
Index DE-schleck · schleck · German
schleck · rank #82,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,093
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schlafräume
Nearest frequency peer: Schlafräume (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „schleck“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- scheuch
scheuch
17,912 corpus weight
- Schlafgemach
Schlafgemach
17,910 corpus weight
- Schlafräume
Schlafräume
17,909 corpus weight
- schleck
schleck
17,908 corpus weight
- schlimmstes
schlimmstes
17,907 corpus weight
- Schlussstein
Schlussstein
17,905 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schleck“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schleck |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃlɛk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schleck“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schleck is uncommon German at frequency #82,093 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃlɛk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schlecken".
Zero misspellings are on record for schleck in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is schleck, spelled S-C-H-L-E-C-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schlecken
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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