schraub
[ʃʁaʊ̯p]
The verdict
“schraub” is uncommon German (frequency #76,136 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,136
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schrauben
Corpus desk
Index DE-schraub · schraub · German
schraub · rank #76,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,136
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schonender
Nearest frequency peer: schonender (-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 „schraub“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schnapper
Schnapper
23,868 corpus weight
- schonender
schonender
23,866 corpus weight
- schraub
schraub
23,865 corpus weight
- schriebst
schriebst
23,864 corpus weight
- Schriftstel…
Schriftstellerei
23,863 corpus weight
- Schutzsuche…
Schutzsuchende
23,862 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schraub“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schraub |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃʁaʊ̯p] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schraub“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schraub is uncommon German at frequency #76,136 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃʁaʊ̯p]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schrauben".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for schraub, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 schraub, spelled S-C-H-R-A-U-B.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schrauben
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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