Schneider
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,277
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
Schneider is aGermannoun. It means: meist selbstständiger Handwerker, Gewerbetreibender, der Kleidung anfertigt oder ändert Pronounced [ˈʃnaɪ̯dɐ]. It ranks #3,277 in German word frequency. Often confused with schneien and Schreier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schneider |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃnaɪ̯dɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schneider is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃnaɪ̯dɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,277 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for Schneider, with forms such as "cshneider", "scchneider", and "schenider". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "schneien", "Schreier", "schneller", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Schneider, spelled S-C-H-N-E-I-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1meist selbstständiger Handwerker, Gewerbetreibender, der Kleidung anfertigt oder ändert
- 2ein Weißfisch (Alburnus bipunctatus), Schneiderfisch
- 3dünnes, langbeiniges Insekt, z. B. Schnake (Tipulidae) oder Wasserläufer (Gerridae)
- 4dünnes, langbeiniges Spinnentier, z. B. Weberknecht (Opiliones)
- 5das Erreichen nur der Hälfte oder weniger der zum Gewinn nötigen Augen (Punkte)
- 6großes Wildschwein, Sau
- 7ein Angler, der keinen Fisch gefangen hat
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshneider,scchneider,schenider,schhneider,schnedier,schneidder,schneiderr,schneidre,schneiedr,schnieder,schnneider,scnheider,shcneider,sschneider
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Schneider
Misspelling Variants of "Schneider"
Frequency rank: #3,277 in German
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