Schluckspecht
[ˈʃlʊkˌʃpɛçt]
The verdict
“Schluckspecht” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die viel (vor allem alkoholische Getränke) trinkt
Corpus desk
Index DE-schluckspecht · Schluckspecht · German
Schluckspecht · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schluckspecht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃlʊkˌʃpɛçt] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schluckspecht“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schluckspecht is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃlʊkˌʃpɛçt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die viel (vor allem alkoholische Getränke) trinkt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Schluckspecht, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Schluckspecht, spelled S-C-H-L-U-C-K-S-P-E-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die viel (vor allem alkoholische Getränke) trinkt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schluckspecht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ihr seid aber richtige Schluckspechte!
„Dem pietistischen, hocharistokratischen, bettelarmen geistlichen Schluckspecht, der sich nur zum Gefängnisprediger hat machen lassen, den Glanz seiner christlichen Demuth leuchten zu lassen vor den Leuten, sind der humanistische Director und der materialistische Doctor ein Gräuel.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.