schweizerisch

/[ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡səʁɪʃ]/ adj

Letters

13 characters

Frequency Rank

#60,056

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

schweizerisch is anGermanadj. It means: die Schweiz oder Schweizer betreffend, zur Schweiz gehörend, aus ihr kommend Pronounced [ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡səʁɪʃ].

Key facts for schweizerisch
PropertyValue
Headwordschweizerisch
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡səʁɪʃ]
Letters13
Frequency rank#60,056
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of schweizerisch in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for schweizerisch is 13 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡səʁɪʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,056 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Schweiz oder Schweizer betreffend, zur Schweiz gehörend, aus ihr kommend".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for schweizerisch in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 schweizerisch, spelled S-C-H-W-E-I-Z-E-R-I-S-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Schweiz oder Schweizer betreffend, zur Schweiz gehörend, aus ihr kommend

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #60,056 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "schweizerisch"?
"schweizerisch" is spelled S-C-H-W-E-I-Z-E-R-I-S-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡səʁɪʃ].
What does "schweizerisch" mean?
As an adj, "schweizerisch" means: die Schweiz oder Schweizer betreffend, zur Schweiz gehörend, aus ihr kommend
How do you pronounce "schweizerisch"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "schweizerisch" is [ˈʃvaɪ̯t͡səʁɪʃ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "schweizerisch" come from?
"schweizerisch" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.