Schamane

/[ʃaˈmaːnə]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,859

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Schamane is aGermannoun. It means: Person, die in Ekstase Verbindung mit Geistern und den Seelen Verstorbener aufnimmt, um etwas zum Wohle der Gemeinschaft zu bewirken, zum Beispiel Heilung von Kranken, Abwendung von Unglücksfällen,... Pronounced [ʃaˈmaːnə].

Key facts for Schamane
PropertyValue
HeadwordSchamane
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʃaˈmaːnə]
Letters8
Frequency rank#50,859
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Schamane in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Schamane is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃaˈmaːnə]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,859 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Person, die in Ekstase Verbindung mit Geistern und den Seelen Verstorbener aufnimmt, um etwas zum Wohle der Gemeinschaft zu bewirken, zum Beispiel Heilung von Kranken, Abwendung von Unglücksfällen,...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Schamane in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Schamane, spelled S-C-H-A-M-A-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Person, die in Ekstase Verbindung mit Geistern und den Seelen Verstorbener aufnimmt, um etwas zum Wohle der Gemeinschaft zu bewirken, zum Beispiel Heilung von Kranken, Abwendung von Unglücksfällen, Glück bei der Jagd

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #50,859 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Schamane"?
"Schamane" is spelled S-C-H-A-M-A-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃaˈmaːnə].
What does "Schamane" mean?
As a noun, "Schamane" means: Person, die in Ekstase Verbindung mit Geistern und den Seelen Verstorbener aufnimmt, um etwas zum Wohle der Gemeinschaft zu bewirken, zum Beispiel Heilung von Kranken, Abwendung von Unglücksfällen,...
How do you pronounce "Schamane"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Schamane" is [ʃaˈmaːnə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Schamane" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.