schleimig
[ˈʃlaɪ̯mɪç]
The verdict
“schleimig” is uncommon German (frequency #78,509 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,509
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - glitschig feucht, aus Schleim bestehend
Corpus desk
Index DE-schleimig · schleimig · German
schleimig · rank #78,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,509
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schlafsaal
Nearest frequency peer: Schlafsaal (-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 „schleimig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schirmherrin
Schirmherrin
21,495 corpus weight
- schlaffen
schlaffen
21,494 corpus weight
- Schlafsaal
Schlafsaal
21,493 corpus weight
- schleimig
schleimig
21,492 corpus weight
- schluchzend
schluchzend
21,491 corpus weight
- Schneeballs…
Schneeballsystem
21,489 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schleimig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schleimig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃlaɪ̯mɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schleimig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schleimig is uncommon German at frequency #78,509 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃlaɪ̯mɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for schleimig in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 schleimig, spelled S-C-H-L-E-I-M-I-G.
Definition
- 1glitschig feucht, aus Schleim bestehend
- 2falsch, nur übertrieben freundlich tuend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schleimig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diese Hafergrütze ist ja ganz eklig schleimig geworden. Die mag ich nicht essen.
„Wir erinnern auch daran, dass Kolonien auf dünn besiedelten Platten schleimiger sind als auf dichten Platten, junge Kolonien schleimiger als ältere, Bohnenagarkulturen schleimiger als Fleischagarkulturen.“
This word in other languages
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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