Schnitt
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,515
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
Schnitt is aGermannoun. It means: der Durchschnitt zweier Mengen, also die Menge aller beiden gemeinsamen Elemente (Punkte, wenn es sich um Punktmengen handelt) Pronounced [ʃnɪt]. It ranks #2,515 in German word frequency. Often confused with Schott and schütt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schnitt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃnɪt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schnitt is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃnɪt]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,515 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Schnitt, with forms such as "cshnitt", "scchnitt", and "schhnitt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Schott", "schütt", "Schritt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Schnitt, spelled S-C-H-N-I-T-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1der Durchschnitt zweier Mengen, also die Menge aller beiden gemeinsamen Elemente (Punkte, wenn es sich um Punktmengen handelt)
- 2zeichnerische maßstäbliche Darstellung einer durch die Längs- oder Querachse gehenden Schnittfläche von Bauteilen (Längsschnitt, Querschnitt)
- 3eine durch Schneiden entstandene Wunde, Furche oder Beschädigung
- 4das Geschnittene (zum Beispiel Heu)
- 5die beschnittenen, oft gefärbten Außenseiten des Blätterblocks eines Buches
- 6Papiermuster, nach dem die Teile eines Kleides zugeschnitten werden.
- 7Form des Geschnittenen [zum Beispiel Schnitt des Gesichts]
- 8Kurzform von Durchschnitt
- 9Zuschnitt der Haare beim Frisör
- 10das Schneiden an sich, das Trennen von Material
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshnitt,scchnitt,schhnitt,schintt,schnit,schnnitt,schntit,scnhitt,shcnitt,sschnitt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Schnitt
Misspelling Variants of "Schnitt"
Frequency rank: #2,515 in German
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