schnurrt
[ʃnʊʁt]
The verdict
“schnurrt” is uncommon German (frequency #68,648 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,648
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnurren
Corpus desk
Index DE-schnurrt · schnurrt · German
schnurrt · rank #68,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,648
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schnittwunden
Nearest frequency peer: Schnittwunden (-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 „schnurrt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schniedel
Schniedel
31,355 corpus weight
- Schnittwund…
Schnittwunden
31,354 corpus weight
- schnurrt
schnurrt
31,353 corpus weight
- Schoten
Schoten
31,352 corpus weight
- Schreibers
Schreibers
31,351 corpus weight
- schrubben
schrubben
31,350 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schnurrt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schnurrt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃnʊʁt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schnurrt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schnurrt is uncommon German at frequency #68,648 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃnʊʁt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for schnurrt, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is schnurrt, spelled S-C-H-N-U-R-R-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnurren
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnurren
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schnurren
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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