schwant
[ʃvaːnt]
The verdict
“schwant” is uncommon German (frequency #99,070 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,070
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwanen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwant · schwant · German
schwant · rank #99,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,070
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schutzschirm
Nearest frequency peer: Schutzschirm (-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 „schwant“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schultergel…
Schultergelenk
934 corpus weight
- Schuppe
Schuppe
933 corpus weight
- Schutzschirm
Schutzschirm
932 corpus weight
- schwant
schwant
931 corpus weight
- schwelenden
schwelenden
930 corpus weight
- schwärmten
schwärmten
929 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schwant“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃvaːnt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schwant“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schwant is uncommon German at frequency #99,070 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃvaːnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwanen".
schwant has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is schwant, spelled S-C-H-W-A-N-T.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwanen
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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