Schmallenberg
[ˈʃmalənˌbɛʁk]
The verdict
“Schmallenberg” is uncommon German (frequency #83,261 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,261
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmallenberg · Schmallenberg · German
Schmallenberg · rank #83,261 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,261
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schlosskapelle
Nearest frequency peer: Schlosskapelle (-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 „Schmallenberg“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schlagseite
Schlagseite
16,743 corpus weight
- Schleudersi…
Schleudersitz
16,742 corpus weight
- Schlosskape…
Schlosskapelle
16,741 corpus weight
- Schmallenbe…
Schmallenberg
16,740 corpus weight
- schmeckten
schmeckten
16,739 corpus weight
- schmettern
schmettern
16,738 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schmallenberg“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schmallenberg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃmalənˌbɛʁk] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #83,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schmallenberg“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schmallenberg is uncommon German at frequency #83,261 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈʃmalənˌbɛʁk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Schmallenberg in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Schmallenberg, spelled S-C-H-M-A-L-L-E-N-B-E-R-G.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Schmallenberg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Schmallenberg liegt im Westen Deutschlands.
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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