schanghaien
Letters
11 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
schanghaien is aGermanverb. It means: jemanden durch List und Täuschung – zumeist indem dieser mit Alkohol berauscht wird – zum Matrosendienst auf einem Schiff anwerben und diesen (mit Gewalt) einschiffen Pronounced [ˌʃaŋˈhaɪ̯ən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schanghaien |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌʃaŋˈhaɪ̯ən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schanghaien is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʃaŋˈhaɪ̯ən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for schanghaien in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is schanghaien, spelled S-C-H-A-N-G-H-A-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemanden durch List und Täuschung – zumeist indem dieser mit Alkohol berauscht wird – zum Matrosendienst auf einem Schiff anwerben und diesen (mit Gewalt) einschiffen
- 2jemandem etwas versprechen, das man jedoch nicht einhält; jemanden überreden, durch heftiges Zureden umstimmen, zumeist indem man die Person betrunken macht
- 3jemanden auf seine Militärdiensttauglichkeit hin untersuchen
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