Schiffskapitän
[ˈʃɪfskapiˌtɛːn]
The verdict
“Schiffskapitän” 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) - Kapitän eines Schiffs
Corpus desk
Index DE-schiffskapitan · Schiffskapitän · German
Schiffskapitän · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | Schiffskapitän |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃɪfskapiˌtɛːn] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schiffskapitän“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schiffskapitän is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃɪfskapiˌtɛːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kapitän eines Schiffs".
Schiffskapitän doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 Schiffskapitän, spelled S-C-H-I-F-F-S-K-A-P-I-T-Ä-N.
Definition
- 1Kapitän eines Schiffs
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Schiffskapitän appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Er legte die Hände auf die beiden Außenkanten des Rednerpultes, wie ein Schiffskapitän, der bei rauer See das Ruder fest umklammert hält.“
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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.