schmücke
[ˈʃmʏkə]
The verdict
“schmücke” is uncommon German (frequency #94,837 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,837
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmücken
Corpus desk
Index DE-schmucke · schmücke · German
schmücke · rank #94,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,837
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schmähungen
Nearest frequency peer: Schmähungen (-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 “schmücke”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Schmiergeld…
Schmiergelder
5,167 corpus weight
- schmink
schmink
5,166 corpus weight
- Schmähungen
Schmähungen
5,165 corpus weight
- schmücke
schmücke
5,164 corpus weight
- schnappe
schnappe
5,163 corpus weight
- Schneepflug
Schneepflug
5,162 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “schmücke” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schmücke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃmʏkə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “schmücke” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
schmücke is uncommon German at frequency #94,837 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃmʏkə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for schmücke in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 schmücke, spelled S-C-H-M-Ü-C-K-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmücken
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmücken
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmücken
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schmücken
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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