German shepherd
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The verdict
“German shepherd” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deutscher Schäferhund
Corpus desk
Index DE-german-shepherd · German shepherd · German
German shepherd · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" 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 | German shepherd |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „German shepherd“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
German shepherd is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deutscher Schäferhund".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for German shepherd, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is German shepherd, spelled G-E-R-M-A-N- -S-H-E-P-H-E-R-D.
Definition
- 1Deutscher Schäferhund
Synonyms
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.