schnauzer
\ʃnaw.zœʁ\
The verdict
“schnauzer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des races de chiens originaires du sud de l’Allemagne, à poils durs et secs, avec moustaches et sourcils développés, utilisées comme chien de garde et de défense, chien de pistage ou plus simpl...
Corpus desk
Index FR-schnauzer · schnauzer · French
schnauzer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | schnauzer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃnaw.zœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « schnauzer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
schnauzer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʃnaw.zœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Une des races de chiens originaires du sud de l’Allemagne, à poils durs et secs, avec moustaches et sourcils développés, utilisées comme chien de garde et de défense, chien de pistage ou plus simpl...".
Zero misspellings are on record for schnauzer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is schnauzer, spelled S-C-H-N-A-U-Z-E-R.
Definition
- 1Une des races de chiens originaires du sud de l’Allemagne, à poils durs et secs, avec moustaches et sourcils développés, utilisées comme chien de garde et de défense, chien de pistage ou plus simplement chien de compagnie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how schnauzer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chiens de type schnauzer sont classés dans le groupe 2 par la SCC.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.