Schnittmenge
[ˈʃnɪtˌmɛŋə]
The verdict
“Schnittmenge” is uncommon German (frequency #54,061 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,061
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Menge bestehend aus den gemeinsamen Elementen von mehreren Mengen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schnittmenge · Schnittmenge · German
Schnittmenge · rank #54,061 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,061
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schmeichelt
Nearest frequency peer: schmeichelt (-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 „Schnittmenge“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schlingen
schlingen
45,943 corpus weight
- Schlüssels
Schlüssels
45,942 corpus weight
- schmeichelt
schmeichelt
45,941 corpus weight
- Schnittmenge
Schnittmenge
45,940 corpus weight
- Schulfreund
Schulfreund
45,939 corpus weight
- Schulkindern
Schulkindern
45,938 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schnittmenge“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schnittmenge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃnɪtˌmɛŋə] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #54,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schnittmenge“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schnittmenge is uncommon German at frequency #54,061 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃnɪtˌmɛŋə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Menge bestehend aus den gemeinsamen Elementen von mehreren Mengen".
No misspelling variants are generated for Schnittmenge in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Schnittmenge, spelled S-C-H-N-I-T-T-M-E-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Menge bestehend aus den gemeinsamen Elementen von mehreren Mengen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schnittmenge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Menge C ist die Schnittmenge aus den Mengen A und B.
„War zwar schon vor unseren Berechnungen relativ klar, dass die Schnittmenge nicht radikal hoch sein kann – mobile Nutzer sind in der Tendenz jünger und die mobilen Zahlen sind zudem meistens noch deutlich geringer als die der stationären Website – verblüffen einige Zahlen dennoch.“
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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