-schaft
\ʃaft\
The verdict
“-schaft” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suffixe servant à former des substantifs féminins à partir d’autres substantifs ou de verbes, et indiquant la qualité décrite par ceux-ci.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schaft · -schaft · French
-schaft · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -schaft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | \ʃaft\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
-schaft is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed \ʃaft\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Suffixe servant à former des substantifs féminins à partir d’autres substantifs ou de verbes, et indiquant la qualité décrite par ceux-ci.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for -schaft, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is -schaft, spelled --S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1Suffixe servant à former des substantifs féminins à partir d’autres substantifs ou de verbes, et indiquant la qualité décrite par ceux-ci.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how -schaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
leiden, « souffrir » -> die Leidenschaft, « passion ».
Bruder, « frère » -> die Bruderschaft, « fraternité ».
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.