Scharlatan
[ˈʃaʁlatan]
The verdict
“Scharlatan” is uncommon German (frequency #79,672 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,672
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Betrüger, Schwindler, der besonderes Wissen, magische Fähigkeiten oder übernatürliche Gaben zu besitzen vorgibt
Corpus desk
Index DE-scharlatan · Scharlatan · German
Scharlatan · rank #79,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,672
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schandau
Nearest frequency peer: Schandau (-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 „Scharlatan“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schadenfroh
schadenfroh
20,332 corpus weight
- Schandau
Schandau
20,330 corpus weight
- Scharlatan
Scharlatan
20,329 corpus weight
- Schattendas…
Schattendasein
20,328 corpus weight
- schaufelt
schaufelt
20,327 corpus weight
- Schaukasten
Schaukasten
20,326 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Scharlatan“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Scharlatan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃaʁlatan] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Scharlatan“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Scharlatan is uncommon German at frequency #79,672 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃaʁlatan]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Betrüger, Schwindler, der besonderes Wissen, magische Fähigkeiten oder übernatürliche Gaben zu besitzen vorgibt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Scharlatan, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Scharlatan, spelled S-C-H-A-R-L-A-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1Betrüger, Schwindler, der besonderes Wissen, magische Fähigkeiten oder übernatürliche Gaben zu besitzen vorgibt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Scharlatan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Scharlatan hatte sie alle hereingelegt.
„Der Schamane war nicht einfach der nächstbeste freiberufliche Scharlatan, der seine unwissenden Verwandten ausnutzte.“
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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