Schäumen
[ˈʃɔɪ̯mən]
The verdict
“Schäumen” is an uncommon German word, ranked #71,829 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #71,829
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dativ Plural des Substantivs Schaum
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schäumen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃɔɪ̯mən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schäumen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schäumen is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃɔɪ̯mən]. Corpus data places it at rank #71,829 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dativ Plural des Substantivs Schaum".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schäumen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Schäumen, spelled S-C-H-Ä-U-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural des Substantivs Schaum
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 “Schäumen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-Ä-U-M-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃɔɪ̯mən] (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.