Schlieben
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The verdict
“Schlieben” is uncommon German (frequency #69,665 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,665
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlieben · Schlieben · German
Schlieben · rank #69,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,665
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 107,600
- PHOTO-FINISH Schiedsspruch
Nearest frequency peer: Schiedsspruch (-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 “Schlieben”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Scherbenhau…
Scherbenhaufen
30,339 corpus weight
- Schiedsrich…
Schiedsrichtern
30,338 corpus weight
- Schiedsspru…
Schiedsspruch
30,337 corpus weight
- Schlieben
Schlieben
30,336 corpus weight
- schmiegt
schmiegt
30,335 corpus weight
- Schnittmust…
Schnittmuster
30,333 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Schlieben” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schlieben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schlieben” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Schlieben is uncommon German at frequency #69,665 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schlieben, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Schlieben, spelled S-C-H-L-I-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
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
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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