Dschinn
[d͡ʒɪn]
The verdict
“Dschinn” is uncommon German (frequency #77,871 among 45,632 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,871
- frequency rank, German
- 45,632
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (im muslimisch-orientalischen Kontext) nach (vor-)islamischer Vorstellung ein übersinnliches, ins menschliche Leben schädlich oder helfend eingreifendes Geisterwesen, das in aller Regel für den Men...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dschinn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d͡ʒɪn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dschinn” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Dschinn is uncommon German at frequency #77,871 among 45,632 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [d͡ʒɪn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(im muslimisch-orientalischen Kontext) nach (vor-)islamischer Vorstellung ein übersinnliches, ins menschliche Leben schädlich oder helfend eingreifendes Geisterwesen, das in aller Regel für den Men...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dschinn, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Dschinn, spelled D-S-C-H-I-N-N.
Definition
- 1(im muslimisch-orientalischen Kontext) nach (vor-)islamischer Vorstellung ein übersinnliches, ins menschliche Leben schädlich oder helfend eingreifendes Geisterwesen, das in aller Regel für den Menschen unsichtbar ist, jedoch mitunter diesem in menschlicher oder tierischer Gestalt sichtbar werden kann (dem Koran zufolge ist es ein aus rauchlosem Feuer erschaffenes Mittelwesen zwischen den Menschen und den Engeln und gehört mit diesen beiden zu den vernünftigen Wesen; dem islamischen Volksglauben nach kann es auch Besitz vom Menschen ergreifen)
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Dschinn”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-S-C-H-I-N-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d͡ʒɪn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.