schmeichel
[ˈʃmaɪ̯çl̩]
The verdict
“schmeichel” is uncommon German (frequency #68,643 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,643
- 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 schmeicheln
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmeichel · schmeichel · German
schmeichel · rank #68,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,643
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schlachtfelde…
Nearest frequency peer: Schlachtfeldern (-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 „schmeichel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- scheme
scheme
31,360 corpus weight
- Schlachtfel…
Schlachtfeldern
31,359 corpus weight
- schmeichel
schmeichel
31,358 corpus weight
- Schmetterli…
Schmetterlings
31,357 corpus weight
- Schniedel
Schniedel
31,355 corpus weight
- Schnittwund…
Schnittwunden
31,354 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schmeichel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schmeichel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃmaɪ̯çl̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schmeichel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schmeichel is uncommon German at frequency #68,643 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃmaɪ̯çl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
schmeichel has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 schmeichel, spelled S-C-H-M-E-I-C-H-E-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmeicheln
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmeicheln
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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