schmeicheln

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for schmeicheln is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃmaɪ̯çl̩n]. Corpus data places it at rank #48,456 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "versuchen, jemandem zu gefallen oder jemanden zu beeinflussen, indem man Dinge sagt, die der Andere gern hört, die aber nicht unbedingt der eigenen Meinung entsprechen.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for schmeicheln, with forms such as "cshmeicheln", "scchmeicheln", and "schemicheln". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "schleichen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is schmeicheln, spelled S-C-H-M-E-I-C-H-E-L-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.