schikanieren
[ʃikaˈniːʁən]
The verdict
“schikanieren” is an uncommon German word, ranked #55,683 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #55,683
- frequency rank, German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Person (in der Öffentlichkeit) terrorisieren, gegen sie intrigieren oder sie mobben; mit unnötigen Aufgaben (Schikanen) quälen
| 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) |
Where “schikanieren” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schikanieren is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃikaˈniːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #55,683 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “schikanieren”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-I-K-A-N-I-E-R-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʃikaˈniːʁən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.