schön
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#282
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
schön is anGermanadj. It means: ästhetisch, eine angenehme Wirkung auf die Sinne habend: zum Beispiel ein gutes Aussehen habend, sich gut anhörend Pronounced [ʃøːn]. It ranks #282 in German word frequency. Often confused with son and Sohn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schön |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ʃøːn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for schön is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃøːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #282 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for schön, with forms such as "cshön", "scchön", and "schhön". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "son", "Sohn", "Show", 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 schön, spelled S-C-H-Ö-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ästhetisch, eine angenehme Wirkung auf die Sinne habend: zum Beispiel ein gutes Aussehen habend, sich gut anhörend
- 2angenehm, gut, anständig
- 3verstärkend im Sinne von beträchtlich
- 4zustimmende Antwort auf eine Frage
- 5so, wie es sich gehört
- 6in festen Wendungen mit verschwommener Bedeutung [1, 2]
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshön,scchön,schhön,schnö,schönn,scöhn,shcön,sschön
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for schön
Misspelling Variants of "schön"
Frequency rank: #282 in German
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Nearby German words
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