schwärzlich
[ˈʃvɛʁt͡slɪç]
The verdict
“schwärzlich” is uncommon German (frequency #64,692 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,692
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nicht ganz/wirklich schwarz, ins Schwarze spielend
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwarzlich · schwärzlich · German
schwärzlich · rank #64,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,692
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schwimme
Nearest frequency peer: schwimme (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “schwärzlich”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Schwermut
Schwermut
35,312 corpus weight
- schwieriger…
schwierigeren
35,311 corpus weight
- schwimme
schwimme
35,310 corpus weight
- schwärzlich
schwärzlich
35,309 corpus weight
- schänden
schänden
35,308 corpus weight
- scuderia
scuderia
35,306 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “schwärzlich” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwärzlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃvɛʁt͡slɪç] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #64,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “schwärzlich” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
schwärzlich is uncommon German at frequency #64,692 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃvɛʁt͡slɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nicht ganz/wirklich schwarz, ins Schwarze spielend".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for schwärzlich, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is schwärzlich, spelled S-C-H-W-Ä-R-Z-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1nicht ganz/wirklich schwarz, ins Schwarze spielend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how schwärzlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein kaltblütiger Signalgast hatte die Bomben aufgenommen, zwei empfingen sogar ein schwärzliches Licht von der Morgensonne.“
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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