schikanieren
[ʃikaˈniːʁən]
The verdict
“schikanieren” is uncommon German (frequency #55,683 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,683
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Person (in der Öffentlichkeit) terrorisieren, gegen sie intrigieren oder sie mobben; mit unnötigen Aufgaben (Schikanen) quälen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schikanieren · schikanieren · German
schikanieren · rank #55,683 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,683
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schiefgeht
Nearest frequency peer: schiefgeht (-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 „schikanieren“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- schiebst
schiebst
44,320 corpus weight
- schiefgeht
schiefgeht
44,319 corpus weight
- schikanieren
schikanieren
44,318 corpus weight
- Schlafmittel
Schlafmittel
44,317 corpus weight
- Schlagwörter
Schlagwörter
44,316 corpus weight
- Schlaraffen…
Schlaraffenland
44,315 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schikanieren“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schikanieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃikaˈniːʁən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schikanieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schikanieren is uncommon German at frequency #55,683 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃikaˈniːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Person (in der Öffentlichkeit) terrorisieren, gegen sie intrigieren oder sie mobben; mit unnötigen Aufgaben (Schikanen) quälen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for schikanieren, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is schikanieren, spelled S-C-H-I-K-A-N-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Person (in der Öffentlichkeit) terrorisieren, gegen sie intrigieren oder sie mobben; mit unnötigen Aufgaben (Schikanen) quälen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schikanieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elisabeth wird von ihrem kleinen Bruder ständig schikaniert.
Der Ausbilder liebte es, die neuen Wehrpflichtigen mit Gewaltmärschen zu schikanieren.
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); 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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