schwanen
[ˈʃvaːnən]
The verdict
“schwanen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas Unangenehmes vorausahnen lassen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwanen · schwanen · German
schwanen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwanen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃvaːnən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schwanen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schwanen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃvaːnən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas Unangenehmes vorausahnen lassen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for schwanen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 schwanen, spelled S-C-H-W-A-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas Unangenehmes vorausahnen lassen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schwanen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es schwant mir, dass ich morgen das Klo putzen muss.
„Persephone folgte dem Gehabe ihres Gemahls mit Sorge. Ihr schwante Böses.“
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.