Schnapsidee
[ˈʃnapsʔiˌdeː]
The verdict
“Schnapsidee” is uncommon German (frequency #67,666 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,666
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Idee, die verrückt klingt oder die zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Entstehung (vielleicht, aber nicht zwingend unter Einfluss bewusstseinsbeeinflussender Mittel/Drogen wie Alkohol) gut/klug erschien, sich aber...
Corpus desk
Index DE-schnapsidee · Schnapsidee · German
Schnapsidee · rank #67,666 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,666
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schnappatmung
Nearest frequency peer: Schnappatmung (-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 „Schnapsidee“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schmatzen
schmatzen
32,338 corpus weight
- schmuggelt
schmuggelt
32,337 corpus weight
- Schnappatmu…
Schnappatmung
32,336 corpus weight
- Schnapsidee
Schnapsidee
32,335 corpus weight
- schnick
schnick
32,334 corpus weight
- Schoppen
Schoppen
32,333 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schnapsidee“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schnapsidee |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃnapsʔiˌdeː] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schnapsidee“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schnapsidee is uncommon German at frequency #67,666 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃnapsʔiˌdeː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Idee, die verrückt klingt oder die zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Entstehung (vielleicht, aber nicht zwingend unter Einfluss bewusstseinsbeeinflussender Mittel/Drogen wie Alkohol) gut/klug erschien, sich aber...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schnapsidee, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Schnapsidee, spelled S-C-H-N-A-P-S-I-D-E-E.
Definition
- 1Idee, die verrückt klingt oder die zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Entstehung (vielleicht, aber nicht zwingend unter Einfluss bewusstseinsbeeinflussender Mittel/Drogen wie Alkohol) gut/klug erschien, sich aber später als schlecht/dumm herausstellt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schnapsidee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das war ja mal wieder eine tolle Schnapsidee!
Wie bist du denn auf die Schnapsidee gekommen?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).