Fremdscham

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Fremdscham is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfʁɛmtˌʃaːm]. Corpus data places it at rank #97,010 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "das Gefühl, sich für eine oder mehrere andere Personen beziehungsweise für deren (als peinlich oder ähnlich empfundene) Handlungen, Verhalten oder dergleichen schämen zu müssen".

No misspelling variants are generated for Fremdscham in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Fremdscham, spelled F-R-E-M-D-S-C-H-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.