Schöffe
[ˈʃœfə]
The verdict
“Schöffe” is uncommon German (frequency #78,528 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,528
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - juristischer Laie, der ehrenamtlich an der Urteilsfindung im Rahmen von Strafverfahren neben einem oder mehreren Berufsrichtern beteiligt ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schöffe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃœfə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schöffe” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Schöffe is uncommon German at frequency #78,528 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃœfə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schöffe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schöffe, spelled S-C-H-Ö-F-F-E.
Definition
- 1juristischer Laie, der ehrenamtlich an der Urteilsfindung im Rahmen von Strafverfahren neben einem oder mehreren Berufsrichtern beteiligt ist
- 2Beigeordneter des Bürgermeisters, Stadtbeamter
- 3Person, die zur Erfüllung verschiedener Aufgaben bei Gericht und in der Verwaltung verpflichtet war
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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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Using “Schöffe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-Ö-F-F-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.