Schienenkanone
[ˈʃiːnənkaˌnoːnə]
The verdict
“Schienenkanone” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Waffe, die Stahlgeschosse durch ein Magnetfeld beschleunigt
Corpus desk
Index DE-schienenkanone · Schienenkanone · German
Schienenkanone · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schienenkanone |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃiːnənkaˌnoːnə] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schienenkanone“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schienenkanone is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃiːnənkaˌnoːnə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Waffe, die Stahlgeschosse durch ein Magnetfeld beschleunigt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Schienenkanone, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Schienenkanone, spelled S-C-H-I-E-N-E-N-K-A-N-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Waffe, die Stahlgeschosse durch ein Magnetfeld beschleunigt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Schienenkanone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Allen gemeinsam ist, dass sie vor Waffen nur so strotzen, von wuchtigen Schienenkanonen auf den schwereren Fahrzeugen bis hin zu Maschinengewehren, die auf umfunktionierten zivilen Pritschenwagen notdürftig auf Lafetten montiert sind.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.