Schmid
[ʃmiːt]
The verdict
“Schmid” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #7,988 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #7,988
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname, der in dieser Schreibweise seine größte Verbreitung in Süddeutschland, Österreich und in der Schweiz findet
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schmid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ʃmiːt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schmid” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schmid is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃmiːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,988 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname, der in dieser Schreibweise seine größte Verbreitung in Süddeutschland, Österreich und in der Schweiz findet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schmid, with forms such as "cshmid", "scchmid", and "schhmid". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Schuld", "schrie", "Schund", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schmid, spelled S-C-H-M-I-D.
Definition
- 1deutschsprachiger Nachname, Familienname, der in dieser Schreibweise seine größte Verbreitung in Süddeutschland, Österreich und in der Schweiz findet
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshmid,scchmid,schhmid,schimd,schmdi,schmidd,schmmid,scmhid,shcmid,sschmid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Schmid - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “Schmid”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-M-I-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʃmiːt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Schuld” - see the side-by-side comparison. Schmid vs Schuld
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.