schimpfen wie ein Rohrspatz
[ˈʃɪmp͡fn̩ viː aɪ̯n ˈʁoːɐ̯ˌʃpat͡s]
The verdict
“schimpfen wie ein Rohrspatz” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — laut, erregt und ungehalten schimpfen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schimpfen wie ein Rohrspatz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʃɪmp͡fn̩ viː aɪ̯n ˈʁoːɐ̯ˌʃpat͡s] |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schimpfen wie ein Rohrspatz” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schimpfen wie ein Rohrspatz is 27 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃɪmp͡fn̩ viː aɪ̯n ˈʁoːɐ̯ˌʃpat͡s]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "laut, erregt und ungehalten schimpfen".
No misspelling variants are generated for schimpfen wie ein Rohrspatz in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is schimpfen wie ein Rohrspatz, spelled S-C-H-I-M-P-F-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -R-O-H-R-S-P-A-T-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1laut, erregt und ungehalten schimpfen
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.
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- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-I-M-P-F-E-N- -W-I-E- -E-I-N- -R-O-H-R-S-P-A-T-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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