scharren
[ˈʃaʁən]
The verdict
“scharren” is uncommon German (frequency #76,122 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,122
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (mit den Gliedmaßen) den Erdboden nur an der Oberfläche mit oft wiederholten, schnellen, kratzenden Bewegungen aufwühlen, mit der Schnauze, mit den Pfoten durch Kratzen ein Loch graben oder den Bod...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scharren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃaʁən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “scharren” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
scharren is uncommon German at frequency #76,122 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃaʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for scharren in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 scharren, spelled S-C-H-A-R-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1(mit den Gliedmaßen) den Erdboden nur an der Oberfläche mit oft wiederholten, schnellen, kratzenden Bewegungen aufwühlen, mit der Schnauze, mit den Pfoten durch Kratzen ein Loch graben oder den Boden aufwühlen
- 2etwas durch Kratzen mit den Füßen oder einem Gerät (irgendwohin) fortbewegen
- 3gierig das Geld zusammenkratzen/zusammenraffen
- 4kratzende Geräusche durch wiederholtes Schleifen über eine Oberfläche mit den Füßen oder Krallen (oder Ähnliches) verursachen, besonders, wenn dadurch ein Missfallen ausgedrückt wird
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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Using “scharren”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-A-R-R-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.