schlicht
[ʃlɪçt]
The verdict
“schlicht” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,462
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einfach gehalten, nicht sehr aufwändig gestaltet
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlicht · schlicht · German
schlicht · rank #4,462 · 14 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,462
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Roth
Nearest frequency peer: Roth (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “schlicht”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Ressourcen
Ressourcen
95,542 corpus weight
- restlichen
restlichen
95,541 corpus weight
- Roth
Roth
95,540 corpus weight
- schlicht
schlicht
95,539 corpus weight
- Schwestern
Schwestern
95,538 corpus weight
- spielten
spielten
95,537 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “schlicht” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | schlicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʃlɪçt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “schlicht” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around schlicht (IPA [ʃlɪçt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,462 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "einfach gehalten, nicht sehr aufwändig gestaltet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for schlicht, with forms such as "cshlicht", "scchlicht", and "schhlicht". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Schlick", "Schlucht", "schluckt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is schlicht, spelled S-C-H-L-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1einfach gehalten, nicht sehr aufwändig gestaltet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schlicht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Kritiker waren enttäuscht, da ihre Linie unverändert elegant und schlicht war.“
So hatte man den Tisch der Magenleidenden, den Tisch der Nierenbankerotteure, den Tisch der Nervösen, den Tisch der stärker Nervösen, den Tisch der schon ein wenig Blöden, den Tisch der schlicht Blöden, den Tisch der absolut Blöden, den Tisch der aussichtslos Blöden (die mußten am meisten bezahlen). (Hermann Harry Schmitz, Im Sanatorium, z.n. Projekt Gute…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshlicht
- scchlicht
- schhlicht
- schilcht
- schlciht
- schliccht
- schlichht
- schlichtt
- schlicth
- schlihct
- schllicht
- sclhicht
- shclicht
- sschlicht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schlicht - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "schlicht", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "schlicht". Here's where to go from here.
- "schlicht" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Schlick". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,462 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.