Stoppschild
[ˈʃtɔpˌʃɪlt]
The verdict
“Stoppschild” is uncommon German (frequency #79,780 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,780
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - bestimmtes Verkehrsschild, das Verkehrsteilnehmern das Anhalten und wenn nötig Gewähren von Vorfahrt vor der eigenen Weiterfahrt vorschreibt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stoppschild |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtɔpˌʃɪlt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Stoppschild” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Stoppschild is uncommon German at frequency #79,780 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtɔpˌʃɪlt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "bestimmtes Verkehrsschild, das Verkehrsteilnehmern das Anhalten und wenn nötig Gewähren von Vorfahrt vor der eigenen Weiterfahrt vorschreibt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Stoppschild, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Stoppschild, spelled S-T-O-P-P-S-C-H-I-L-D.
Definition
- 1bestimmtes Verkehrsschild, das Verkehrsteilnehmern das Anhalten und wenn nötig Gewähren von Vorfahrt vor der eigenen Weiterfahrt vorschreibt
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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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Using “Stoppschild”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-O-P-P-S-C-H-I-L-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃtɔpˌʃɪlt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.