schämst
[ʃɛːmst]
The verdict
“schämst” is uncommon German (frequency #54,067 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,067
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schämen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schamst · schämst · German
schämst · rank #54,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,067
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schwuchteln
Nearest frequency peer: Schwuchteln (-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 „schämst“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schweigende
schweigende
45,936 corpus weight
- Schwuchteln
Schwuchteln
45,935 corpus weight
- schämst
schämst
45,934 corpus weight
- Schärpe
Schärpe
45,933 corpus weight
- seems
seems
45,932 corpus weight
- Seitenwand
Seitenwand
45,931 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schämst“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schämst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃɛːmst] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schämst“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schämst is uncommon German at frequency #54,067 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃɛːmst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schämen".
schämst has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 schämst, spelled S-C-H-Ä-M-S-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schämen
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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