schriebst
[ʃʁiːpst]
The verdict
“schriebst” is uncommon German (frequency #76,137 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,137
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs schreiben
Corpus desk
Index DE-schriebst · schriebst · German
schriebst · rank #76,137 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,137
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schraub
Nearest frequency peer: schraub (-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 „schriebst“
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 „schriebst“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schriebst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃʁiːpst] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schriebst“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schriebst is uncommon German at frequency #76,137 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃʁiːpst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs schreiben".
Zero misspellings are on record for schriebst in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is schriebst, spelled S-C-H-R-I-E-B-S-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs schreiben
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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