Strolch
[ʃtʁɔlç]
The verdict
“Strolch” is uncommon German (frequency #63,813 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,813
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleinkriminelle Person
Corpus desk
Index DE-strolch · Strolch · German
Strolch · rank #63,813 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,813
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Streuobstwies…
Nearest frequency peer: Streuobstwiesen (-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 „Strolch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- strammer
strammer
36,191 corpus weight
- Streckennetz
Streckennetz
36,190 corpus weight
- Streuobstwi…
Streuobstwiesen
36,189 corpus weight
- Strolch
Strolch
36,188 corpus weight
- Stromes
Stromes
36,187 corpus weight
- Studentenbe…
Studentenbewegung
36,186 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Strolch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Strolch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃtʁɔlç] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Strolch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Strolch is uncommon German at frequency #63,813 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃtʁɔlç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Strolch, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Strolch, spelled S-T-R-O-L-C-H.
Definition
- 1kleinkriminelle Person
- 2kleiner, raffinierter Junge
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Strolch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Schon in der Hafenkneipe hatte er erkannt, daß ihm John auf der weiten Fahrt in die Arktis das einsame Dasein unter den Grobianen und den ausgemachten Strolchen seiner Besatzung als guter Kamerad erträglich machen konnte.“
„Er wollte anständig sein, aber da sind Schufte und Strolche und Lumpen, darum will Franz Biberkopf nichts mehr sehen und hören von der Welt, und wenn er Penner wird, er versauft den letzten Pfennig von seinem Geld.“
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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