schmatz
[ʃmat͡s]
The verdict
“schmatz” is uncommon German (frequency #80,890 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,890
- 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 schmatzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmatz · schmatz · German
schmatz · rank #80,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,890
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schlüchtern
Nearest frequency peer: Schlüchtern (-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 „schmatz“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- scheints
scheints
19,115 corpus weight
- Schlawiner
Schlawiner
19,113 corpus weight
- Schlüchtern
Schlüchtern
19,112 corpus weight
- schmatz
schmatz
19,111 corpus weight
- schmökern
schmökern
19,109 corpus weight
- schnarch
schnarch
19,108 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schmatz“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schmatz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃmat͡s] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schmatz“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schmatz is uncommon German at frequency #80,890 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃmat͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmatzen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for schmatz, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is schmatz, spelled S-C-H-M-A-T-Z.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmatzen
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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