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 September 3, 2026) - Liste von Personen oder Dingen, die benachteiligt werden sollen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwarze-liste · schwarze Liste · German
schwarze Liste · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | schwarze Liste |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˌʃvaʁt͡sə ˈlɪstə] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schwarze Liste“ im Deutschen
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schwarze Liste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Harel hatte 1948 den bescheidenen Rang eines Oberst inne, war aber dennoch der höchste Offizier, dem sämtliche Operationen unterstanden, die mit Verhören, schwarzen Listen und den übrigen Schikanen des palästinensischen Lebens unter israelischer Besatzung zu tun hatten.“
„Großer Gott, dachte Anna, sie haben mich erwischt. Ich stehe auf der schwarzen Liste.“
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.