schnapps
/ʃnɑps/
"schnapps" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“schnapps” is uncommon English (frequency #71,888 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,888
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of distilled alcoholic beverage (liquor), often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as an apéritif or digestif.
Corpus desk
Index EN-schnapps · schnapps · English
schnapps · rank #71,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,888
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH scaredy
Nearest frequency peer: scaredy (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “schnapps”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sapir
Sapir
28,119 corpus weight
- satay
satay
28,117 corpus weight
- scaredy
scaredy
28,114 corpus weight
- schnapps
schnapps
28,113 corpus weight
- Schrödinger
Schrödinger
28,111 corpus weight
- scrutinise
scrutinise
28,108 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “schnapps” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schnapps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃnɑps/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “schnapps” in English
Rare enough to double-check
schnapps is uncommon English at frequency #71,888 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ʃnɑps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for schnapps in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Schnaps. The correct English form is schnapps, spelled S-C-H-N-A-P-P-S.
Definition
- 1A type of distilled alcoholic beverage (liquor), often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as an apéritif or digestif.
- 2A serving of this beverage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schnapps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
apple schnapps; peach schnapps
“What happened?” “You drank about a bottle of vodka and ten peppermint schnapps is what happened. Come on, up.”
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schnaps.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).