schizoid

/[ʃit͡soˈiːt]/ adj

Letters

8 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

schizoid is anGermanadj. It means: eine gespaltene Persönlichkeit (schizoide Persönlichkeitsstörung) habend, in leichterem Grade die Symptome der Schizophrenie aufweisend Pronounced [ʃit͡soˈiːt].

Key facts for schizoid
PropertyValue
Headwordschizoid
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdj
IPA[ʃit͡soˈiːt]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

schizoid is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for schizoid is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃit͡soˈiːt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for schizoid in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 schizoid, spelled S-C-H-I-Z-O-I-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    eine gespaltene Persönlichkeit (schizoide Persönlichkeitsstörung) habend, in leichterem Grade die Symptome der Schizophrenie aufweisend
  2. 2
    seelisch zerrissen, gespalten verrückt

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "schizoid"?
"schizoid" is spelled S-C-H-I-Z-O-I-D. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃit͡soˈiːt].
What does "schizoid" mean?
As an adj, "schizoid" means: eine gespaltene Persönlichkeit (schizoide Persönlichkeitsstörung) habend, in leichterem Grade die Symptome der Schizophrenie aufweisend
How do you pronounce "schizoid"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "schizoid" is [ʃit͡soˈiːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "schizoid" come from?
"schizoid" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.