scary
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The verdict
“scary” is uncommon German (frequency #63,727 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,727
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gruselig, unheimlich
Corpus desk
Index DE-scary · scary · German
scary · rank #63,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,727
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Satteldach
Nearest frequency peer: Satteldach (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „scary“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- sampling
sampling
36,278 corpus weight
- Sandbank
Sandbank
36,277 corpus weight
- Satteldach
Satteldach
36,275 corpus weight
- scary
scary
36,274 corpus weight
- Schaulustige
Schaulustige
36,273 corpus weight
- scheid
scheid
36,272 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „scary“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scary |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „scary“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
scary is uncommon German at frequency #63,727 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "gruselig, unheimlich".
scary has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is scary, spelled S-C-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1gruselig, unheimlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This old mansion is very scary.
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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