Schamanismus
[ʃamaˈnɪsmʊs]
The verdict
“Schamanismus” is uncommon German (frequency #77,271 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,271
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Glaube an die Fähigkeit mancher Menschen, Geister zu beschwören
Corpus desk
Index DE-schamanismus · Schamanismus · German
Schamanismus · rank #77,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,271
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schafspelz
Nearest frequency peer: Schafspelz (-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 „Schamanismus“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Satellitenb…
Satellitenbild
22,733 corpus weight
- Schafspelz
Schafspelz
22,731 corpus weight
- Schamanismus
Schamanismus
22,730 corpus weight
- Scharnier
Scharnier
22,729 corpus weight
- Schauern
Schauern
22,728 corpus weight
- Schaulustig…
Schaulustigen
22,727 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schamanismus“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schamanismus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃamaˈnɪsmʊs] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #77,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schamanismus“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schamanismus is uncommon German at frequency #77,271 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃamaˈnɪsmʊs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Glaube an die Fähigkeit mancher Menschen, Geister zu beschwören".
Schamanismus has no tracked misspelling variants, 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schamanismus, spelled S-C-H-A-M-A-N-I-S-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1Glaube an die Fähigkeit mancher Menschen, Geister zu beschwören
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schamanismus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Diejenigen, die die Prostitution als das älteste Gewerbe ansehen, vergessen, dass der Schamanismus mindestens ein paar Jahrhunderte älter ist.“
„Ihre Religion war der Schamanismus, ihre Priester waren die Schamanen.“
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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