schraub
[ʃʁaʊ̯p]
The verdict
“schraub” is uncommon German (frequency #76,136 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,136
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schrauben
| 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) |
Where “schraub” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
schraub is uncommon German at frequency #76,136 among 107,600 “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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Using “schraub”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-R-A-U-B - 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.