schnick
[ʃnɪk]
The verdict
“schnick” is uncommon German (frequency #67,667 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,667
- 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 schnicken
Corpus desk
Index DE-schnick · schnick · German
schnick · rank #67,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,667
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schnapsidee
Nearest frequency peer: Schnapsidee (-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 „schnick“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- 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
- Schreddern
Schreddern
32,332 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schnick“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schnick |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃnɪk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schnick“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schnick is uncommon German at frequency #67,667 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃnɪk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnicken".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for schnick, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 schnick, spelled S-C-H-N-I-C-K.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnicken
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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