Schweizer Käse
[ˌʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ ˈkɛːzə]
The verdict
“Schweizer Käse” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - in der Schweiz hergesteller Käse; oft synonym für Emmentaler oder anderen Käse mit Löchern
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schweizer Käse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ ˈkɛːzə] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schweizer Käse” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schweizer Käse is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʃvaɪ̯t͡sɐ ˈkɛːzə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "in der Schweiz hergesteller Käse; oft synonym für Emmentaler oder anderen Käse mit Löchern".
No misspelling variants are generated for Schweizer Käse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Schweizer Käse, spelled S-C-H-W-E-I-Z-E-R- -K-Ä-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in der Schweiz hergesteller Käse; oft synonym für Emmentaler oder anderen Käse mit Löchern
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Using “Schweizer Käse”
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- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-W-E-I-Z-E-R- -K-Ä-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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