schweig
[ʃvaɪ̯k]
The verdict
“schweig” is uncommon German (frequency #52,408 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,408
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schweigen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schweig · schweig · German
schweig · rank #52,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,408
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schwedin
Nearest frequency peer: Schwedin (-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 „schweig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schwammen
schwammen
47,597 corpus weight
- Schwank
Schwank
47,596 corpus weight
- Schwedin
Schwedin
47,594 corpus weight
- schweig
schweig
47,593 corpus weight
- Schwerverbr…
Schwerverbrecher
47,591 corpus weight
- schwäbischer
schwäbischer
47,590 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schweig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schweig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃvaɪ̯k] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schweig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schweig is uncommon German at frequency #52,408 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃvaɪ̯k]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schweigen".
No misspelling variants are generated for schweig in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 schweig, spelled S-C-H-W-E-I-G.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schweigen
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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