schwächeln
[ˈʃvɛçl̩n]
The verdict
“schwächeln” is uncommon German (frequency #97,670 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,670
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schwäche zeigen; nicht die gewohnte Stärke aufweisen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwacheln · schwächeln · German
schwächeln · rank #97,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,670
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schwoll
Nearest frequency peer: schwoll (-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 „schwächeln“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schwenkbar
schwenkbar
2,334 corpus weight
- Schwertkampf
Schwertkampf
2,333 corpus weight
- schwoll
schwoll
2,332 corpus weight
- schwächeln
schwächeln
2,331 corpus weight
- Schönheitso…
Schönheitsoperationen
2,330 corpus weight
- Schönling
Schönling
2,329 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schwächeln“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwächeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃvɛçl̩n] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schwächeln“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schwächeln is uncommon German at frequency #97,670 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃvɛçl̩n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schwäche zeigen; nicht die gewohnte Stärke aufweisen".
No misspelling variants are generated for schwächeln in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is schwächeln, spelled S-C-H-W-Ä-C-H-E-L-N.
Definition
- 1Schwäche zeigen; nicht die gewohnte Stärke aufweisen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how schwächeln appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Konjunktur schwächelt im Moment.
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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