Schamane
[ʃaˈmaːnə]
The verdict
“Schamane” is an uncommon German word, ranked #50,859 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,859
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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,...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schamane |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃaˈmaːnə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schamane” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schamane is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, 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,...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Schamane, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Schamane, spelled S-C-H-A-M-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Person, 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
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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Using “Schamane”
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- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-A-M-A-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.