schmäh
[ʃmɛː]
The verdict
“schmäh” is uncommon German (frequency #54,864 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,864
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmähen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmah · schmäh · German
schmäh · rank #54,864 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,864
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schmiedet
Nearest frequency peer: schmiedet (-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 „schmäh“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schlüsselwo…
Schlüsselwort
45,139 corpus weight
- schmiedet
schmiedet
45,138 corpus weight
- schmäh
schmäh
45,137 corpus weight
- schreist
schreist
45,136 corpus weight
- Schrotflinte
Schrotflinte
45,135 corpus weight
- Schulentwic…
Schulentwicklung
45,134 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schmäh“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schmäh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃmɛː] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schmäh“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schmäh is uncommon German at frequency #54,864 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃmɛː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmähen".
Zero misspellings are on record for schmäh in our index, 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 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 schmäh, spelled S-C-H-M-Ä-H.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmähen
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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