schlemmen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,862
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
schlemmen is aGermanverb. It means: gut, reichlich und voller Genuss essen, oftmals hochpreisige, ausgesuchte Nahrungsmittel Pronounced [ˈʃlɛmən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schlemmen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃlɛmən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schlemmen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃlɛmən]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,862 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "gut, reichlich und voller Genuss essen, oftmals hochpreisige, ausgesuchte Nahrungsmittel".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for schlemmen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 schlemmen, spelled S-C-H-L-E-M-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1gut, reichlich und voller Genuss essen, oftmals hochpreisige, ausgesuchte Nahrungsmittel
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Frequency rank: #50,862 in German
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