sweetheart

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The verdict

“sweetheart” is uncommon German (frequency #83,362 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#83,362
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liebling, Schatz

Corpus desk

Index DE-sweetheart · sweetheart · German

sweetheart · rank #83,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #83,362
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Suppenküche

Nearest frequency peer: Suppenküche (-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 „sweetheart“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sweetheart“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sweetheart
PropertyValue
Headwordsweetheart
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters10
Frequency rank#83,362
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „sweetheart“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.sweetheartfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Suppenküche“ (#83,361), „suhlen“ (#83,360), „Südamerikaner“ (#83,364). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „sweetheart“ bei #83,362. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sweetheart is uncommon German at frequency #83,362 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for sweetheart in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 sweetheart, spelled S-W-E-E-T-H-E-A-R-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Liebling, Schatz
  2. 2
    abschätzig gegenüber eine Frau, deren Name nicht bekannt ist. Liebchen, Häschen

Synonyms

sweetiehoney

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sweetheart"?
"sweetheart" is spelled S-W-E-E-T-H-E-A-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "sweetheart" mean?
As a noun, "sweetheart" means: Liebling, Schatz
How do you pronounce "sweetheart"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sweetheart" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sweetheart", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Talsperren#83,372Sterberate#83,341Steinmauer#83,337Stecknadel#83,335

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list