Schule
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#397
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Schule is aGermannoun. It means: öffentliche oder private Einrichtung/Anstalt für den Unterricht Pronounced [ˈʃuːlə]. It ranks #397 in German word frequency. Often confused with Sohle and Spule.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schule |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃuːlə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schule is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃuːlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #397 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Schule, with forms such as "cshule", "scchule", and "schhule". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sohle", "Spule", "Schutz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Schule, spelled S-C-H-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1öffentliche oder private Einrichtung/Anstalt für den Unterricht
- 2kurz für Schulgebäude/Unterrichtsgebäude; Gebäude, in dem der Schulunterricht erteilt wird
- 3Unterricht
- 4Ausbildung, bei der fachgebietsspezifische/branchentypische Fähigkeiten geschult werden
- 5Gesamtheit der Lehrkräfte und Schüler einer Schule^([1])
- 6Gruppe von Wissenschaftlern oder Künstlern, die sich auf den Begründer einer bestimmten Theorie berufen
- 7Übungsbuch, Lehrbuch, Anleitungsbuch
- 8aus Fischen bestehender Schwarm (auch bei Walen und Delfinen)
- 9Ausbildung, Erziehung, Schulung, Verhalten
- 10kurz für Baumschule, eine Anbaufläche für Pflanzen, hauptsächlich Bäume und Sträucher
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshule,scchule,schhule,schlue,schuel,schulle,scuhle,shcule,sschule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Schule
Misspelling Variants of "Schule"
Frequency rank: #397 in German
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