Schlückchen
[ˈʃlʏkçən]
The verdict
“Schlückchen” is uncommon German (frequency #99,051 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,051
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleiner Schluck
Corpus desk
Index DE-schluckchen · Schlückchen · German
Schlückchen · rank #99,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,051
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schlupfwinkel
Nearest frequency peer: Schlupfwinkel (-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 “Schlückchen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- schlenderten
schlenderten
953 corpus weight
- schlingern
schlingern
952 corpus weight
- Schlupfwink…
Schlupfwinkel
951 corpus weight
- Schlückchen
Schlückchen
950 corpus weight
- Schmackes
Schmackes
949 corpus weight
- Schmuckstüc…
Schmuckstücken
948 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Schlückchen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schlückchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃlʏkçən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #99,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Schlückchen” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Schlückchen is uncommon German at frequency #99,051 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃlʏkçən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kleiner Schluck".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Schlückchen in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schlückchen, spelled S-C-H-L-Ü-C-K-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1kleiner Schluck
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schlückchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Er nippte daran, nahm kleine Schlückchen und beobachtete Mr. Mullins über den Tassenrand hinweg.“
„Dann tranken sie beide ein Schlückchen.“
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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