scharfsinnig
[ˈʃaʁfˌzɪnɪç]
The verdict
“scharfsinnig” is uncommon German (frequency #65,648 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,648
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit scharfem Sinn, mit scharfem/hohem Verstand, hochintelligent
Corpus desk
Index DE-scharfsinnig · scharfsinnig · German
scharfsinnig · rank #65,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,648
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schelte
Nearest frequency peer: Schelte (+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 „scharfsinnig“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Satiren
Satiren
34,357 corpus weight
- sauberem
sauberem
34,355 corpus weight
- scharfsinnig
scharfsinnig
34,353 corpus weight
- Schelte
Schelte
34,352 corpus weight
- Schiebetüren
Schiebetüren
34,351 corpus weight
- Schlachtruf
Schlachtruf
34,350 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „scharfsinnig“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scharfsinnig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈʃaʁfˌzɪnɪç] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #65,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „scharfsinnig“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
scharfsinnig is uncommon German at frequency #65,648 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃaʁfˌzɪnɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit scharfem Sinn, mit scharfem/hohem Verstand, hochintelligent".
scharfsinnig has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 scharfsinnig, spelled S-C-H-A-R-F-S-I-N-N-I-G.
Definition
- 1mit scharfem Sinn, mit scharfem/hohem Verstand, hochintelligent
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scharfsinnig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ingrid ist eine der scharfsinnigsten Mädchen aus der Klasse.
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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