Schnellboot

[ˈʃnɛlˌboːt]

/[ˈʃnɛlˌboːt]/ noun

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The verdict

“Schnellboot” is uncommon German (frequency #93,550 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,550
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleines Kriegsschiff, das mit einer Geschwindigkeit von über 50 Knoten fahren kann

Corpus desk

Index DE-schnellboot · Schnellboot · German

Schnellboot · rank #93,550 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,550
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH schmächtig

Nearest frequency peer: schmächtig (-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 „Schnellboot“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schnellboot“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Schnellboot
PropertyValue
HeadwordSchnellboot
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʃnɛlˌboːt]
Letters11
Frequency rank#93,550
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Schnellboot“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Schnellbootfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „schmächtig“ (#93,549), „schnelllebigen“ (#93,551), „Schmalspurbahn“ (#93,548). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „Schnellboot“ bei #93,550. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Schnellboot is uncommon German at frequency #93,550 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃnɛlˌboːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kleines Kriegsschiff, das mit einer Geschwindigkeit von über 50 Knoten fahren kann".

No misspelling variants are generated for Schnellboot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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. The correct German form is Schnellboot, spelled S-C-H-N-E-L-L-B-O-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    kleines Kriegsschiff, das mit einer Geschwindigkeit von über 50 Knoten fahren kann

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Schnellboot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Die Schnellboote der Jaguar-Klasse (Marinebezeichnung: Klasse 140/141) waren die ersten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg neu entwickelten Kriegsschiffe der deutschen Bundesmarine.“
  2. „Es folgten Einsätze auf Schnellbooten, Minenräumbooten und anderen »fahrbaren Untersätzen«.“

Antonyms

FregatteKorvetteKreuzerSchlachtschiffTorpedobootU-BootUnterseebootZerstörer

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Schnellboot"?
"Schnellboot" is spelled S-C-H-N-E-L-L-B-O-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃnɛlˌboːt].
What does "Schnellboot" mean?
As a noun, "Schnellboot" means: kleines Kriegsschiff, das mit einer Geschwindigkeit von über 50 Knoten fahren kann
How do you pronounce "Schnellboot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Schnellboot" is [ˈʃnɛlˌboːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Schnellboot" come from?
"Schnellboot" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Schnellboot", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list