schmoll
[ʃmɔl]
The verdict
“schmoll” is uncommon German (frequency #57,386 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,386
- 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 schmollen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmoll · schmoll · German
schmoll · rank #57,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,386
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schmierigen
Nearest frequency peer: schmierigen (-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 „schmoll“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schildes
Schildes
42,618 corpus weight
- Schlaglöcher
Schlaglöcher
42,617 corpus weight
- schmierigen
schmierigen
42,616 corpus weight
- schmoll
schmoll
42,615 corpus weight
- schmälert
schmälert
42,614 corpus weight
- Schnösel
Schnösel
42,613 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schmoll“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schmoll |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃmɔl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schmoll“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schmoll is uncommon German at frequency #57,386 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃmɔl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmollen".
schmoll doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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's etymology isn't recorded, 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 schmoll, spelled S-C-H-M-O-L-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmollen
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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