Schmeichelei
[ʃmaɪ̯çəˈlaɪ̯]
The verdict
“Schmeichelei” is uncommon German (frequency #97,648 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,648
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schmeichelnde Äußerung
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmeichelei · Schmeichelei · German
Schmeichelei · rank #97,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,648
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schmalseite
Nearest frequency peer: Schmalseite (-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 „Schmeichelei“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schimpfworte
Schimpfworte
2,357 corpus weight
- schipper
schipper
2,356 corpus weight
- Schmalseite
Schmalseite
2,354 corpus weight
- Schmeichelei
Schmeichelei
2,353 corpus weight
- schmucklosen
schmucklosen
2,352 corpus weight
- schnall
schnall
2,351 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schmeichelei“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schmeichelei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃmaɪ̯çəˈlaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schmeichelei“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schmeichelei is uncommon German at frequency #97,648 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃmaɪ̯çəˈlaɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "schmeichelnde Äußerung".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Schmeichelei, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Schmeichelei, spelled S-C-H-M-E-I-C-H-E-L-E-I.
Definition
- 1schmeichelnde Äußerung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schmeichelei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trotz seiner Schmeicheleien wollte sie nicht mit ihm zusammen sein.
„Falls diese Bemerkung als Schmeichelei gemeint war, verstand Csoma sie nicht so.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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