schwerfallen
[ˈʃveːɐ̯ˌfalən]
The verdict
“schwerfallen” is uncommon German (frequency #69,676 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,676
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - große Schwierigkeiten, große Mühe verursachen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwerfallen · schwerfallen · German
schwerfallen · rank #69,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,676
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schwärmerei
Nearest frequency peer: Schwärmerei (+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 „schwerfallen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schutzberei…
Schutzbereich
30,329 corpus weight
- Schutzhütte
Schutzhütte
30,328 corpus weight
- Schwarte
Schwarte
30,327 corpus weight
- schwerfallen
schwerfallen
30,325 corpus weight
- Schwärmerei
Schwärmerei
30,324 corpus weight
- Schöpfungsg…
Schöpfungsgeschichte
30,321 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schwerfallen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwerfallen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃveːɐ̯ˌfalən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #69,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schwerfallen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schwerfallen is uncommon German at frequency #69,676 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃveːɐ̯ˌfalən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "große Schwierigkeiten, große Mühe verursachen".
Zero misspellings are on record for schwerfallen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is schwerfallen, spelled S-C-H-W-E-R-F-A-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1große Schwierigkeiten, große Mühe verursachen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schwerfallen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„«Nu macht bloß keine Trauerfeier», sagte er derb, obwohl ihm das Schlucken schwerfiel.“
„Er tut, was uns Menschen arg schwerfällt, er schweigt und wirkt.“
Antonyms
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); 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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