schwitz
[ʃvɪt͡s]
The verdict
“schwitz” is uncommon German (frequency #93,573 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,573
- 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 schwitzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwitz · schwitz · German
schwitz · rank #93,573 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,573
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schwingende
Nearest frequency peer: schwingende (-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 „schwitz“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schwengel
Schwengel
6,431 corpus weight
- Schwergewic…
Schwergewichte
6,430 corpus weight
- schwingende
schwingende
6,429 corpus weight
- schwitz
schwitz
6,428 corpus weight
- Schübe
Schübe
6,427 corpus weight
- Schürfwunden
Schürfwunden
6,426 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schwitz“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schwitz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃvɪt͡s] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schwitz“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schwitz is uncommon German at frequency #93,573 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃvɪt͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwitzen".
No misspelling variants are generated for schwitz in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 schwitz, spelled S-C-H-W-I-T-Z.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schwitzen
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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