schlugt breit
[ˌʃluːkt ˈbʁaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“schlugt breit” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs breitschlagen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schlugt breit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌʃluːkt ˈbʁaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schlugt breit” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schlugt breit is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʃluːkt ˈbʁaɪ̯t]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs breitschlagen".
No misspelling variants are generated for schlugt breit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is schlugt breit, spelled S-C-H-L-U-G-T- -B-R-E-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs breitschlagen
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.
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- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-L-U-G-T- -B-R-E-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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