screw
[skruː]
The verdict
“screw” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stift mit Gewinde, der durch Drehen in Holz oder dergleichen eingetrieben wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-screw · screw · German
screw · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | screw |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [skruː] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „screw“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
screw is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [skruː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
screw has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is screw, spelled S-C-R-E-W.
Definition
- 1Stift mit Gewinde, der durch Drehen in Holz oder dergleichen eingetrieben wird
- 2Schnecke
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.