Schrifttum
[ˈʃʁɪfttuːm]
The verdict
“Schrifttum” is uncommon German (frequency #59,154 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,154
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alle Schriftdokumente einer Personengruppe (einer Sprachgemeinschaft, eines Faches, …) zusammen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schrifttum · Schrifttum · German
Schrifttum · rank #59,154 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,154
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schrittweisen
Nearest frequency peer: schrittweisen (+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 „Schrifttum“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schmier
Schmier
40,851 corpus weight
- Schramberg
Schramberg
40,849 corpus weight
- Schrifttum
Schrifttum
40,847 corpus weight
- schrittweis…
schrittweisen
40,846 corpus weight
- Schrot
Schrot
40,845 corpus weight
- Schulbehörde
Schulbehörde
40,844 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schrifttum“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schrifttum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃʁɪfttuːm] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schrifttum“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schrifttum is uncommon German at frequency #59,154 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃʁɪfttuːm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "alle Schriftdokumente einer Personengruppe (einer Sprachgemeinschaft, eines Faches, …) zusammen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Schrifttum, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Schrifttum, spelled S-C-H-R-I-F-T-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1alle Schriftdokumente einer Personengruppe (einer Sprachgemeinschaft, eines Faches, …) zusammen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schrifttum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dieses Schrifttum nennt man sino-vietnamesisch.“
„Der oder die Verfasser des »Johannesevangeliums« und der »Apokalypse« gehören in bezug auf Wortlängenverteilung, Satzgliederung und Satzschachtelung und, was das »Johannesevangelium« angeht, auch bezüglich der Satzlänge in den Bereich der Autoren der formal einfacheren Literatur, das heißt zum Schrifttum mit kleinen Mittelwerten und Streuungen der zugehö…
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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