Schmiede

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Schmiede is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃmiːdə]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,401 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ort oder Werkstatt, ausgestattet mit einer oder mehreren Schmiedefeuern, Essen, Blasebälgen und Werkzeugen zum Zwecke der Metallbearbeitung, wie zum Beispiel dem Amboss; hier gehen Schmiede ihrem H...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Schmiede, with forms such as "cshmiede", "scchmiede", and "schhmiede". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "Schwede", "Schminke", "schmiert", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Schmiede, spelled S-C-H-M-I-E-D-E.