Schamgefühl
[ˈʃaːmɡəˌfyːl]
The verdict
“Schamgefühl” is uncommon German (frequency #59,140 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,140
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ein Gefühl der Verlegenheit oder der Bloßstellung, das sowohl durch Verletzung der Intimsphäre auftreten als auch auf dem Bewusstsein beruhen kann, durch unehrenhafte, unanständige oder erfolglose ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schamgefühl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃaːmɡəˌfyːl] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schamgefühl” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Schamgefühl is uncommon German at frequency #59,140 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃaːmɡəˌfyːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Gefühl der Verlegenheit oder der Bloßstellung, das sowohl durch Verletzung der Intimsphäre auftreten als auch auf dem Bewusstsein beruhen kann, durch unehrenhafte, unanständige oder erfolglose ...".
Schamgefühl doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schamgefühl, spelled S-C-H-A-M-G-E-F-Ü-H-L.
Definition
- 1ein Gefühl der Verlegenheit oder der Bloßstellung, das sowohl durch Verletzung der Intimsphäre auftreten als auch auf dem Bewusstsein beruhen kann, durch unehrenhafte, unanständige oder erfolglose Handlungen sozialen Erwartungen oder Normen nicht entsprochen zu haben
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 “Schamgefühl”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-A-M-G-E-F-Ü-H-L - 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.