Scheinkorrelation
German, noun
Scheinkorrelation is spelled S-C-H-E-I-N-K-O-R-R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N (17 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written German, the 522,009th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scheinkorrelation is a German feminine noun meaning “spurious correlation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Scheinkorrelation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininespurious correlation
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Scheinkorrelation
- Scheinkorrelationen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Scheinkorrelation in German?
Scheinkorrelation appears about once in every 71 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).