schwankt
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,277
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
schwankt is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwanken Pronounced [ʃvaŋkt]. Often confused with Schwanz and Schwenk.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwankt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃvaŋkt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schwankt is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃvaŋkt]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,277 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for schwankt, with forms such as "cshwankt", "scchwankt", and "schawnkt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Schwanz", "Schwenk", "schwänze", 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 schwankt, spelled S-C-H-W-A-N-K-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwanken
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwanken
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwanken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshwankt,scchwankt,schawnkt,schhwankt,schwaknt,schwankkt,schwanktt,schwannkt,schwantk,schwnakt,schwwankt,scwhankt,shcwankt,sschwankt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for schwankt
Misspelling Variants of "schwankt"
Frequency rank: #16,277 in German
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Nearby German words
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