schmink
[ʃmɪŋk]
The verdict
“schmink” is uncommon German (frequency #94,835 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,835
- 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 schminken
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmink · schmink · German
schmink · rank #94,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,835
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schmiergelder
Nearest frequency peer: Schmiergelder (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “schmink”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- schmerzhaft…
schmerzhaftes
5,169 corpus weight
- schmerzvoll
schmerzvoll
5,168 corpus weight
- Schmiergeld…
Schmiergelder
5,167 corpus weight
- schmink
schmink
5,166 corpus weight
- Schmähungen
Schmähungen
5,165 corpus weight
- schmücke
schmücke
5,164 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “schmink” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schmink |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃmɪŋk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “schmink” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
schmink is uncommon German at frequency #94,835 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃmɪŋk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schminken".
schmink has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 schmink, spelled S-C-H-M-I-N-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schminken
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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