Schnaps
\ʃnaps\
The verdict
“Schnaps” is uncommon French (frequency #87,146 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,146
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schnaps, eau-de-vie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schnaps · Schnaps · French
Schnaps · rank #87,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,146
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scienze
Nearest frequency peer: scienze (+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 « Schnaps »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- savoyardes
savoyardes
12,858 corpus weight
- scarificati…
scarifications
12,857 corpus weight
- Schnaps
Schnaps
12,855 corpus weight
- scienze
scienze
12,854 corpus weight
- sectionnée
sectionnée
12,853 corpus weight
- segmenté
segmenté
12,852 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Schnaps » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schnaps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃnaps\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Schnaps » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Schnaps is uncommon French at frequency #87,146 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃnaps\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Schnaps, eau-de-vie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Schnaps in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Schnaps, spelled S-C-H-N-A-P-S.
Definition
- 1Schnaps, eau-de-vie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schnaps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich hätte gerne noch einen Schnaps.
Sie mochten jetzt, wenn sie wollten, zusehen, wie er zu einem Wandschränkchen ging, in dem er einen guten Schnaps aufbewahrte, wie er ein Gläschen zuerst zum Ersatz des Frühstücks leerte und wie er ein zweites Gläschen dazu bestimmte, sich Mut zu machen, das letztere nur aus Vorsicht für den unwahrscheinlichen Fall, daß es nötig sein sollte.
Synonyms
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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