scheid
[ʃaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“scheid” is uncommon German (frequency #63,729 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,729
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scheiden
Corpus desk
Index DE-scheid · scheid · German
scheid · rank #63,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,729
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schaulustige
Nearest frequency peer: Schaulustige (-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 „scheid“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Satteldach
Satteldach
36,275 corpus weight
- scary
scary
36,274 corpus weight
- Schaulustige
Schaulustige
36,273 corpus weight
- scheid
scheid
36,272 corpus weight
- schleuder
schleuder
36,269 corpus weight
- schlägern
schlägern
36,268 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „scheid“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scheid |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „scheid“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
scheid is uncommon German at frequency #63,729 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃaɪ̯t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scheiden".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scheid, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is scheid, spelled S-C-H-E-I-D.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs scheiden
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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