Schlehe
[ˈʃleːə]
The verdict
“Schlehe” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mittelgroßer Strauch oder kleiner Baum der Gattung Prunus, der zur Unterfamilie der Steinobstgewächse (Amygdaloideae) innerhalb der Familie der Rosengewächse (Rosaceae) gehört.
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlehe · Schlehe · German
Schlehe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 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 | Schlehe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃleːə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schlehe“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schlehe is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃleːə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Schlehe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Schlehe, spelled S-C-H-L-E-H-E.
Definition
- 1mittelgroßer Strauch oder kleiner Baum der Gattung Prunus, der zur Unterfamilie der Steinobstgewächse (Amygdaloideae) innerhalb der Familie der Rosengewächse (Rosaceae) gehört.
- 2die Frucht von [1]
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schlehe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Schlehen haben dunkelblaue Früchte.
Heute gehen wir Schlehen pflücken.
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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.