Schwall
[ʃval]
The verdict
“Schwall” is an uncommon German word, ranked #58,272 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #58,272
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine große Menge, die über jemanden oder etwas hereinbricht (insbesondere Wasser oder andere Flüssigkeiten, aber auch Worte, Düfte und anderes)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schwall |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃval] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schwall” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schwall is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃval]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,272 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine große Menge, die über jemanden oder etwas hereinbricht (insbesondere Wasser oder andere Flüssigkeiten, aber auch Worte, Düfte und anderes)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schwall, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Schwall, spelled S-C-H-W-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1eine große Menge, die über jemanden oder etwas hereinbricht (insbesondere Wasser oder andere Flüssigkeiten, aber auch Worte, Düfte und anderes)
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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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Using “Schwall”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-W-A-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʃval] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.