schnauzer
\ʃnaw.zœʁ\
The verdict
“schnauzer” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “schnauzer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for schnauzer is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃnaw.zœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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.
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Using “schnauzer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-C-H-N-A-U-Z-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.