schlieffen

verb

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The verdict

“schlieffen” is uncommon German (frequency #92,183 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,183
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schlüpfen

Corpus desk

Index DE-schlieffen · schlieffen · German

schlieffen · rank #92,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #92,183
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH schlendert

Nearest frequency peer: schlendert (-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 „schlieffen“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schlieffen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for schlieffen
PropertyValue
Headwordschlieffen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
Letters10
Frequency rank#92,183
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „schlieffen“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).schlieffenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „schlendert“ (#92,182), „schlüpften“ (#92,184), „schlagkräftigen“ (#92,181). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „schlieffen“ bei #92,183. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

schlieffen is uncommon German at frequency #92,183 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "schlüpfen".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for schlieffen, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

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. The correct German form is schlieffen, spelled S-C-H-L-I-E-F-F-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    schlüpfen

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how schlieffen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Ja ist nicht der Trojanisch Krieg von eim Ey herkommen? Sintemal ja die Helena die einig Kriegsbraut, mit jhren zwen Brüdern Castor vnd Pollux auß eim Ey geschloffen: Hat nicht auch Herculeslang mit deß Königs Actors Söhnen Euryt vnnd Creat deßhalben lang zu streiten: weil sie auß Silberen Eyerschalen waren geschloffen. So werden sie heut gewiß auß stähl…
  2. „Dem Fuchs wird wol der Balg abgestraift, aber ungegärbet schliefft keiner darein.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "schlieffen"?
"schlieffen" is spelled S-C-H-L-I-E-F-F-E-N.
What does "schlieffen" mean?
As a verb, "schlieffen" means: schlüpfen
What language does "schlieffen" come from?
"schlieffen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "schlieffen", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

schlendert#92,182schlüpften#92,184Schuldnern#92,190Scheckheft#92,173

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list