kontaktscheu
[kɔnˈtaktˌʃɔɪ̯]
The verdict
“kontaktscheu” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - menschlichen Kontakten abgeneigt, Kontakte scheuend
Corpus desk
Index DE-kontaktscheu · kontaktscheu · German
kontaktscheu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" 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 | kontaktscheu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kɔnˈtaktˌʃɔɪ̯] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „kontaktscheu“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
kontaktscheu is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [kɔnˈtaktˌʃɔɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "menschlichen Kontakten abgeneigt, Kontakte scheuend".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kontaktscheu, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
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 kontaktscheu, spelled K-O-N-T-A-K-T-S-C-H-E-U.
Definition
- 1menschlichen Kontakten abgeneigt, Kontakte scheuend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kontaktscheu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als Teamleiter sollte man nicht kontaktscheu sein.
Antonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.