schräg
[ʃʁɛːk]
The verdict
“schräg” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,939. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,939
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - von einer (gedachten) geraden, horizontalen oder vertikalen Linie abweichend (und einen spitzen, stumpfen aber niemals rechten Winkel bildend)
Corpus desk
Index DE-schrag · schräg · German
schräg · rank #8,939 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,939
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schildert
Nearest frequency peer: schildert (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “schräg”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Salon
Salon
91,065 corpus weight
- Schaute
Schaute
91,064 corpus weight
- schildert
schildert
91,063 corpus weight
- schräg
schräg
91,062 corpus weight
- Schublade
Schublade
91,061 corpus weight
- Schwung
Schwung
91,060 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “schräg” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schräg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ʃʁɛːk] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schräg” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around schräg (IPA [ʃʁɛːk]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,939 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for schräg, with forms such as "cshräg", "scchräg", and "schhräg". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Schrei", "schrie", "Schwan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 schräg, spelled S-C-H-R-Ä-G.
Definition
- 1von einer (gedachten) geraden, horizontalen oder vertikalen Linie abweichend (und einen spitzen, stumpfen aber niemals rechten Winkel bildend)
- 2prüfend; missbilligend
- 3sich von der Norm, vom Üblichen, Erwartbaren unterscheidend (und deshalb nicht unbedingt zu akzeptieren)
- 4sich an der Grenze des Erlaubten bewegend beziehungsweise diese (ein Stück weit) überschreitend
- 5mit geringem zeitlichen Abstand von etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schräg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Noch beſchatteten die letzten Zweige der traulich herüberreichenden Wachholder- und Nußbüſche ihr Haupt; aber dort aus dem Raſenſpiegel hob ſich fremd der gewaltige Schaft der indiſchen Banane, und der ſchräg hereinfallende Mondſchein ſtreckte den Schatten der impoſanten Blattform rieſenhaft über die Grasfläche hin.“
„Und fünf Häuſer weiter, ihm ſchräg gegenüber, ſah Frau Weſe, den Fuchspelz über ihrem Nachthemd, nach ihrem Manne aus, der heute ungewöhnlich lange zögerte.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshräg
- scchräg
- schhräg
- schrgä
- schrräg
- schrägg
- schärg
- scrhäg
- shcräg
- sschräg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schräg - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "schräg", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
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.