schipper
[ˈʃɪpɐ]
The verdict
“schipper” is uncommon German (frequency #97,645 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,645
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schippern
Corpus desk
Index DE-schipper · schipper · German
schipper · rank #97,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,645
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Schimpfworte
Nearest frequency peer: Schimpfworte (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “schipper”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- schaurigen
schaurigen
2,360 corpus weight
- Schiltach
Schiltach
2,358 corpus weight
- Schimpfworte
Schimpfworte
2,357 corpus weight
- schipper
schipper
2,356 corpus weight
- Schmalseite
Schmalseite
2,354 corpus weight
- Schmeichelei
Schmeichelei
2,353 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “schipper” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schipper |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃɪpɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “schipper” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
schipper is uncommon German at frequency #97,645 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃɪpɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for schipper, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is schipper, spelled S-C-H-I-P-P-E-R.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schippern
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schippern
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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