dahinscheiden

[daˈhɪnˌʃaɪ̯dn̩]

/[daˈhɪnˌʃaɪ̯dn̩]/ verb

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The verdict

“dahinscheiden” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aufhören zu leben und sterben

Corpus desk

Index DE-dahinscheiden · dahinscheiden · German

dahinscheiden · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" 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.

Key facts for dahinscheiden
PropertyValue
Headworddahinscheiden
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[daˈhɪnˌʃaɪ̯dn̩]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “dahinscheiden” sits in German frequency

dahinscheidensits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent German words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dahinscheiden is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [daˈhɪnˌʃaɪ̯dn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aufhören zu leben und sterben".

dahinscheiden has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

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 German form is dahinscheiden, spelled D-A-H-I-N-S-C-H-E-I-D-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    aufhören zu leben und sterben

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how dahinscheiden appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „[Er] ſchied dahin, am Ende und Anfang ehrenvollen Berufes vom langſamen Siechthum ergriffen und ſchoͤnen Hoffnungen entriſſen; […]“ [1838]
  2. „Menschen, zumal vertraute Menschen, dahinscheiden zu sehen, ist immer etwas sehr, sehr Schmerzhaftes, Trauriges.“

Synonyms

ablebenentschlafenversterben

This word in other languages

decease(English)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dahinscheiden"?
"dahinscheiden" is spelled D-A-H-I-N-S-C-H-E-I-D-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [daˈhɪnˌʃaɪ̯dn̩].
What does "dahinscheiden" mean?
As a verb, "dahinscheiden" means: aufhören zu leben und sterben
How do you pronounce "dahinscheiden"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dahinscheiden" is [daˈhɪnˌʃaɪ̯dn̩]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dahinscheiden" come from?
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list