Schönheitsideal
[ˈʃøːnhaɪ̯t͡sʔideˌaːl]
The verdict
“Schönheitsideal” is uncommon German (frequency #58,280 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,280
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - etwas, das jemandem als das Ideal des Schönen vorschwebt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schönheitsideal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃøːnhaɪ̯t͡sʔideˌaːl] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #58,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schönheitsideal” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Schönheitsideal is uncommon German at frequency #58,280 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃøːnhaɪ̯t͡sʔideˌaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas, das jemandem als das Ideal des Schönen vorschwebt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schönheitsideal, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Schönheitsideal, spelled S-C-H-Ö-N-H-E-I-T-S-I-D-E-A-L.
Definition
- 1etwas, das jemandem als das Ideal des Schönen vorschwebt
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 “Schönheitsideal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-Ö-N-H-E-I-T-S-I-D-E-A-L - 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.