sträflich
[ˈʃtʁɛːflɪç]
The verdict
“sträflich” is uncommon German (frequency #67,751 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,751
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - moralisch zu verurteilen, Strafe verdienend, nicht zu billigen, nicht zu entschuldigen, nicht zu verzeihen
Corpus desk
Index DE-straflich · sträflich · German
sträflich · rank #67,751 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,751
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Streckung
Nearest frequency peer: Streckung (-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 „sträflich“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- straucheln
straucheln
32,253 corpus weight
- Streckung
Streckung
32,251 corpus weight
- sträflich
sträflich
32,250 corpus weight
- städtebauli…
städtebaulich
32,249 corpus weight
- subsidiär
subsidiär
32,248 corpus weight
- suchet
suchet
32,247 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sträflich“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sträflich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʁɛːflɪç] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „sträflich“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
sträflich is uncommon German at frequency #67,751 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃtʁɛːflɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "moralisch zu verurteilen, Strafe verdienend, nicht zu billigen, nicht zu entschuldigen, nicht zu verzeihen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sträflich in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
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. The correct German form is sträflich, spelled S-T-R-Ä-F-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1moralisch zu verurteilen, Strafe verdienend, nicht zu billigen, nicht zu entschuldigen, nicht zu verzeihen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sträflich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sträfliche Verantwortungslosigkeit war eine der Ursachen für den Hochhausbrand.
(adverbiell:) Der sträflich vernachlässigte und freistehende Rudi schoss dann doch das einzige Tor.
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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