scharf

/[ʃaʁf]/ adj

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scharf is anSpanishadj. It means: Dícese de filos: filoso, cortante, afilado. Pronounced [ʃaʁf].

Key facts for scharf
PropertyValue
Headwordscharf
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ʃaʁf]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

scharf is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for scharf is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃaʁf]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 29 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for scharf in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is scharf, spelled S-C-H-A-R-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dícese de filos: filoso, cortante, afilado.
  2. 2
    Dícese de filos: filoso, cortante, afilado.
  3. 3
    Dícese del sabor: picante, acre.
  4. 4
    Dícese del sabor: picante, acre.
  5. 5
    Dícese del sabor: picante, acre.
  6. 6
    Dícese de sonidos, tonos, ruidos y similar: (desagradablemente) agudo (y fuerte), estridente.
  7. 7
    Dícese de sonidos, tonos, ruidos y similar: (desagradablemente) agudo (y fuerte), estridente.
  8. 8
    Dícese de sonidos, tonos, ruidos y similar: (desagradablemente) agudo (y fuerte), estridente.
  9. 9
    Dícese especialmente de la vista y del oído: que funciona muy bien, que percibe con exactitud, fino, agudo, perspicaz, exacto, excelente, perfecto.
  10. 10
    Dícese especialmente de la vista y del oído: que funciona muy bien, que percibe con exactitud, fino, agudo, perspicaz, exacto, excelente, perfecto.
  11. 11
    Nítido, claro.
  12. 12
    Dícese de la apariencia (especialmente de la cara): anguloso.
  13. 13
    Dícese del ingenio: agudo, perspicaz.
  14. 14
    Dícese de críticas, reproches, etc.: mordaz.
  15. 15
    Con idea de oposición: vehemente, fuerte, impetuoso.
  16. 16
    Severo, riguroso, duro.
  17. 17
    Violento, encarnizado.
  18. 18
    Muy rápido.
  19. 19
    Muy rápido.
  20. 20
    Muy rápido.
  21. 21
    Dícese de perros: Que están entrenados para atacar personas o animales.
  22. 22
    Que al usarlos tienen efectos destructivos, letal, mortal.
  23. 23
    Dícese de lanzamientos, disparos, etc., en deportes de balón: violento, fuerte, vigoroso, enérgico.
  24. 24
    Dícese del habla: claro, inteligible.
  25. 25
    Dícese de la forma de los navíos: de punta aguda.
  26. 26
    Con idea de sensación positiva: impresionante.
  27. 27
    Con idea de sensación positiva: impresionante.
  28. 28
    Dominado por deseos sexuales, lascivo, caliente, excitado (sexualmente), en celo.
  29. 29
    Dominado por deseos sexuales, lascivo, caliente, excitado (sexualmente), en celo.

Synonyms

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Antonyms

stumpfstumpfmildunscharfverschwommen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "scharf"?
"scharf" is spelled S-C-H-A-R-F. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃaʁf].
What does "scharf" mean?
As an adj, "scharf" means: Dícese de filos: filoso, cortante, afilado.
How do you pronounce "scharf"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "scharf" is [ʃaʁf]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "scharf" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.