schwarze Liste
[ˌʃvaʁt͡sə ˈlɪstə]
The verdict
“schwarze Liste” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Liste von Personen oder Dingen, die benachteiligt werden sollen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwarze Liste |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌʃvaʁt͡sə ˈlɪstə] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schwarze Liste” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
schwarze Liste is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [ˌʃvaʁt͡sə ˈlɪstə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Liste von Personen oder Dingen, die benachteiligt werden sollen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for schwarze Liste in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 schwarze Liste, spelled S-C-H-W-A-R-Z-E- -L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Liste von Personen oder Dingen, die benachteiligt werden sollen
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.
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Using “schwarze Liste”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-W-A-R-Z-E- -L-I-S-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˌʃvaʁt͡sə ˈlɪstə] (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.