Scharade
Letters
8 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
Scharade is aGermannoun. It means: pantomimisches Ratespiel, bei dem ein aus zwei Substantiven zusammengesetztes Wort stumm dargestellt und von Zuschauern erraten werden soll Pronounced [ʃaˈʁaːdə].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Scharade |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃaˈʁaːdə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Scharade is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃaˈʁaːdə]. 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Scharade in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Scharade, spelled S-C-H-A-R-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pantomimisches Ratespiel, bei dem ein aus zwei Substantiven zusammengesetztes Wort stumm dargestellt und von Zuschauern erraten werden soll
- 2Ratespiel als Form des Silbenrätsels, bei dem ein Wort in seine Silben oder Lexeme zerlegt ist und die Bedeutung dieser Silben oder Lexeme und/oder des ganzen Wortes aus (in Versform verfassten) Umschreibungen zu erraten ist
- 3ein durch unangemessene Herangehensweise verfehlter, abgewerteter oder auch abwertender Vorgang, Farce
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