schreckhaft
[ˈʃʁɛkhaft]
The verdict
“schreckhaft” is uncommon German (frequency #97,654 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,654
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich leicht erschrecken lassend
Corpus desk
Index DE-schreckhaft · schreckhaft · German
schreckhaft · rank #97,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,654
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schornsteinen
Nearest frequency peer: Schornsteinen (-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 „schreckhaft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schnall
schnall
2,351 corpus weight
- schnippeln
schnippeln
2,349 corpus weight
- Schornstein…
Schornsteinen
2,348 corpus weight
- schreckhaft
schreckhaft
2,347 corpus weight
- Schreibtisc…
Schreibtischstuhl
2,346 corpus weight
- Schuldschein
Schuldschein
2,344 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schreckhaft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schreckhaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃʁɛkhaft] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #97,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schreckhaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schreckhaft is uncommon German at frequency #97,654 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃʁɛkhaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich leicht erschrecken lassend".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for schreckhaft, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is schreckhaft, spelled S-C-H-R-E-C-K-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1sich leicht erschrecken lassend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schreckhaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vorsicht! Ich bin sehr schreckhaft und bekomme jedes Mal fast einen Herzinfarkt, wenn mich jemand von hinten anspricht.
„Etwa 20 Prozent aller Babys reagieren bereits im Alter von vier Monaten schreckhaft auf neue Situationen, Gegenstände und Personen.“
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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