schnupper
[ˈʃnʊpɐ]
The verdict
“schnupper” is uncommon German (frequency #83,266 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,266
- 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 schnuppern
Corpus desk
Index DE-schnupper · schnupper · German
schnupper · rank #83,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,266
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schneverdingen
Nearest frequency peer: Schneverdingen (-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 „schnupper“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schmeckten
schmeckten
16,739 corpus weight
- schmettern
schmettern
16,738 corpus weight
- Schneckente…
Schneckentempo
16,737 corpus weight
- Schneverdin…
Schneverdingen
16,736 corpus weight
- schnupper
schnupper
16,735 corpus weight
- Schokoladen…
Schokoladenfabrik
16,733 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schnupper“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schnupper |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃnʊpɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schnupper“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schnupper is uncommon German at frequency #83,266 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃnʊpɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for schnupper, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is schnupper, spelled S-C-H-N-U-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnuppern
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnuppern
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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