schräg
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,939
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
schräg is anGermanadj. It means: von einer (gedachten) geraden, horizontalen oder vertikalen Linie abweichend (und einen spitzen, stumpfen aber niemals rechten Winkel bildend) Pronounced [ʃʁɛːk]. It ranks #8,939 in German word frequency. Often confused with Schrei and schrie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schräg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ʃʁɛːk] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schräg is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃʁɛːk]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,939 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for schräg, with forms such as "cshräg", "scchräg", and "schhräg". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Schrei", "schrie", "Schwan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is schräg, spelled S-C-H-R-Ä-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshräg,scchräg,schhräg,schrgä,schrräg,schrägg,schärg,scrhäg,shcräg,sschräg
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Misspelling Variants of "schräg"
Frequency rank: #8,939 in German
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