Schraubstock
[ˈʃʁaʊ̯pˌʃtɔk]
The verdict
“Schraubstock” is uncommon German (frequency #88,259 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,259
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Vorrichtung zum Feststellen von Werkstücken während ihrer Bearbeitung
Corpus desk
Index DE-schraubstock · Schraubstock · German
Schraubstock · rank #88,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,259
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schnorcheln
Nearest frequency peer: schnorcheln (-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 „Schraubstock“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schnelldurc…
Schnelldurchlauf
11,746 corpus weight
- schnellst
schnellst
11,745 corpus weight
- schnorcheln
schnorcheln
11,743 corpus weight
- Schraubstock
Schraubstock
11,742 corpus weight
- Schutzanzug
Schutzanzug
11,740 corpus weight
- schwelgt
schwelgt
11,738 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schraubstock“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schraubstock |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃʁaʊ̯pˌʃtɔk] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #88,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schraubstock“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schraubstock is uncommon German at frequency #88,259 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃʁaʊ̯pˌʃtɔk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Vorrichtung zum Feststellen von Werkstücken während ihrer Bearbeitung".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Schraubstock in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Schraubstock, spelled S-C-H-R-A-U-B-S-T-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1eine Vorrichtung zum Feststellen von Werkstücken während ihrer Bearbeitung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Schraubstock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Schraubstock besteht aus einer beweglichen und einer unbeweglichen Backe.
This word in other languages
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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