schmälert
[ˈʃmɛːlɐt]
The verdict
“schmälert” is uncommon German (frequency #57,387 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,387
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmälern
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmalert · schmälert · German
schmälert · rank #57,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,387
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schmoll
Nearest frequency peer: schmoll (-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 „schmälert“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schlaglöcher
Schlaglöcher
42,617 corpus weight
- schmierigen
schmierigen
42,616 corpus weight
- schmoll
schmoll
42,615 corpus weight
- schmälert
schmälert
42,614 corpus weight
- Schnösel
Schnösel
42,613 corpus weight
- Schocks
Schocks
42,612 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schmälert“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schmälert |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃmɛːlɐt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schmälert“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schmälert is uncommon German at frequency #57,387 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃmɛːlɐt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
schmälert has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is schmälert, spelled S-C-H-M-Ä-L-E-R-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmälern
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmälern
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmälern
- 42. Person Plural Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmälern
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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