schießt auf
[ˌʃiːst ˈaʊ̯f]
The verdict
“schießt auf” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs aufschießen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schießt auf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌʃiːst ˈaʊ̯f] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schießt auf” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schießt auf is 11 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌʃiːst ˈaʊ̯f]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for schießt auf in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is schießt auf, spelled S-C-H-I-E-S-S-T- -A-U-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs aufschießen
- 22. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs aufschießen
- 33. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs aufschießen
- 42. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs aufschießen
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “schießt auf”
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- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-I-E-S-S-T- -A-U-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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