schlucken
[ˈʃlʊkn̩]
The verdict
“schlucken” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,802. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,802
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - durch Zusammenziehen der Muskeln im Hals und Mund in den Magen gelangen lassen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schlucken · schlucken · German
schlucken · rank #9,802 · 15 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,802
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schlimmes
Nearest frequency peer: schlimmes (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „schlucken“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Router
Router
90,202 corpus weight
- ruhigen
ruhigen
90,201 corpus weight
- schlimmes
schlimmes
90,200 corpus weight
- schlucken
schlucken
90,199 corpus weight
- Schmitt
Schmitt
90,198 corpus weight
- schockiert
schockiert
90,197 corpus weight
What this shows „schlucken“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | schlucken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃlʊkn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „schlucken“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around schlucken (IPA [ˈʃlʊkn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,802 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for schlucken, with forms such as "cshlucken", "scchlucken", and "schhlucken". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "schluckt", "Schurken", "schocken", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is schlucken, spelled S-C-H-L-U-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1durch Zusammenziehen der Muskeln im Hals und Mund in den Magen gelangen lassen
- 2etwas akzeptieren
- 3etwas passt in etwas; etwas kann etwas in sich aufnehmen
- 4Treibstoff/Energie verbrauchen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schlucken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn man Halsschmerzen hat, fällt es schwer zu schlucken.
Hat Deine Mutter die Geschichte von der Lehrerfortbildung geschluckt?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshlucken
- scchlucken
- schhlucken
- schlcuken
- schllucken
- schluccken
- schlucekn
- schluckenn
- schluckken
- schluckne
- schlukcen
- schulcken
- sclhucken
- shclucken
- sschlucken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schlucken - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "schlucken", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).