Schaefer
\ˈʃɛːfɐ\
The verdict
“Schaefer” is uncommon French (frequency #75,203 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,203
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schaefer · Schaefer · French
Schaefer · rank #75,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,203
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH schématiser
Nearest frequency peer: schématiser (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Schaefer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sartorius
sartorius
24,802 corpus weight
- satyres
satyres
24,801 corpus weight
- Schaefer
Schaefer
24,798 corpus weight
- schématiser
schématiser
24,797 corpus weight
- scientisme
scientisme
24,796 corpus weight
- scones
scones
24,795 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Schaefer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schaefer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈʃɛːfɐ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Schaefer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Schaefer is uncommon French at frequency #75,203 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈʃɛːfɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Schaefer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Schaefer, spelled S-C-H-A-E-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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