Swedish
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The verdict
“Swedish” is uncommon German (frequency #80,979 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,979
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Sprache Schwedisch
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Swedish |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Swedish” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Swedish is uncommon German at frequency #80,979 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Sprache Schwedisch".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Swedish in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Swedish, spelled S-W-E-D-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1die Sprache Schwedisch
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 “Swedish”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-W-E-D-I-S-H - 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.