Streichholz
[ˈʃtʁaɪ̯çˌhɔlt͡s]
The verdict
“Streichholz” is an uncommon German word, ranked #51,720 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #51,720
- frequency rank, German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stäbchen aus Holz, an dessen Kopf sich ein Material befindet, das sich – sobald man es über angeraute Pappe streicht – leicht entzündet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Streichholz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʁaɪ̯çˌhɔlt͡s] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Streichholz” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Streichholz is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃtʁaɪ̯çˌhɔlt͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #51,720 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Stäbchen aus Holz, an dessen Kopf sich ein Material befindet, das sich – sobald man es über angeraute Pappe streicht – leicht entzündet".
Streichholz has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Streichholz, spelled S-T-R-E-I-C-H-H-O-L-Z.
Definition
- 1Stäbchen aus Holz, an dessen Kopf sich ein Material befindet, das sich – sobald man es über angeraute Pappe streicht – leicht entzündet
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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 “Streichholz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-T-R-E-I-C-H-H-O-L-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.