Scharlatan
[ˈʃaʁlatan]
The verdict
“Scharlatan” is an uncommon German word, ranked #79,672 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #79,672
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Betrüger, Schwindler, der besonderes Wissen, magische Fähigkeiten oder übernatürliche Gaben zu besitzen vorgibt
| 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) |
Where “Scharlatan” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Scharlatan is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃaʁlatan]. Corpus data places it at rank #79,672 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-A-R-L-A-T-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃaʁlatan] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.