schrittweisen
[ˈʃʁɪtˌvaɪ̯zn̩]
The verdict
“schrittweisen” is uncommon German (frequency #59,155 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,155
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
Corpus desk
Index DE-schrittweisen · schrittweisen · German
schrittweisen · rank #59,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,155
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schrifttum
Nearest frequency peer: Schrifttum (-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 „schrittweisen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- 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
- schuldest
schuldest
40,843 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schrittweisen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schrittweisen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃʁɪtˌvaɪ̯zn̩] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #59,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schrittweisen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schrittweisen is uncommon German at frequency #59,155 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃʁɪtˌvaɪ̯zn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 12 senses are on record.
schrittweisen has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is schrittweisen, spelled S-C-H-R-I-T-T-W-E-I-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 4Dativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 5Genitiv Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 6Dativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 8Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 9Genitiv Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 10Dativ Singular alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 11Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
- 12Alle Kasus Plural alle Genera der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrittweise
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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