Schamröte
[ˈʃaːmˌʁøːtə]
The verdict
“Schamröte” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Röte im Gesicht, hervorgerufen von Scham
Corpus desk
Index DE-schamrote · Schamröte · German
Schamröte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schamröte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃaːmˌʁøːtə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schamröte“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schamröte is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃaːmˌʁøːtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Röte im Gesicht, hervorgerufen von Scham".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Schamröte, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Schamröte, spelled S-C-H-A-M-R-Ö-T-E.
Definition
- 1Röte im Gesicht, hervorgerufen von Scham
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schamröte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Eine so schlagfertige Antwort trieb mir die Schamröte ins Gesicht.“
„Und während ich mit tapsigen Händen all das viele Geld in den Koffer pfropfe, glühend im Gesicht und stumm, und die Schamröte mir über den ganzen Leib flattert, sehe ich verblüfft, daß er die schönsten Blumen abschneidet und zu einem Strauß zusammenlegt!“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.