schnarcht
[ʃnaʁçt]
The verdict
“schnarcht” is an uncommon German word, ranked #50,865 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #50,865
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnarchen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schnarcht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃnaʁçt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schnarcht” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schnarcht is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃnaʁçt]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,865 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for schnarcht in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is schnarcht, spelled S-C-H-N-A-R-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnarchen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnarchen
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnarchen
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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- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-N-A-R-C-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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