Schimpanse
[ʃɪmˈpanzə]
The verdict
“Schimpanse” is uncommon German (frequency #77,280 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,280
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertreter der gleichnamigen Gattung von Menschenaffen
Corpus desk
Index DE-schimpanse · Schimpanse · German
Schimpanse · rank #77,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,280
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schiffswrack
Nearest frequency peer: Schiffswrack (-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 „Schimpanse“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- scheuten
scheuten
22,724 corpus weight
- schieren
schieren
22,723 corpus weight
- Schiffswrack
Schiffswrack
22,722 corpus weight
- Schimpanse
Schimpanse
22,721 corpus weight
- schlachte
schlachte
22,720 corpus weight
- Schlagstöck…
Schlagstöcken
22,719 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schimpanse“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schimpanse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃɪmˈpanzə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schimpanse“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schimpanse is uncommon German at frequency #77,280 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃɪmˈpanzə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vertreter der gleichnamigen Gattung von Menschenaffen".
Schimpanse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Schimpanse, spelled S-C-H-I-M-P-A-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1Vertreter der gleichnamigen Gattung von Menschenaffen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schimpanse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dass Schimpansen heute als machiavellische Machtfanatiker gelten und Bonobos als Kreuzung zwischen Dalai Lama und Alice Schwarzer, ließ sich in den Frühjahren der Primatologie keineswegs vorhersehen. Denn zunächst waren Schimpansen Sympathieträger – dank Jane Goodall, die 1960 begann, sie in der Wildnis zu erforschen. … Goodall war schockiert, als ihre g…
„Quicklebendige Schimpansen wurden innerhalb von dreißig Sekunden durch Stimulierung ihres Septumbereiches in Schlaf versetzt.“
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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