Schreiberin
[ˈʃʁaɪ̯bəʁɪn]
The verdict
“Schreiberin” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weibliche Person, die etwas schreibt
Corpus desk
Index DE-schreiberin · Schreiberin · German
Schreiberin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schreiberin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃʁaɪ̯bəʁɪn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schreiberin“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schreiberin is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃʁaɪ̯bəʁɪn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weibliche Person, die etwas schreibt".
Schreiberin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Schreiberin, spelled S-C-H-R-E-I-B-E-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1weibliche Person, die etwas schreibt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Schreiberin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das hatte anderseits den Vorzug klarer Verständlichkeit und unterschied ihren Brief vorteilhaft vom Geschreibsel so manch gelehrten Blaustrumpfs, das sich in seiner Verworrenheit mehr wie ein Essay denn wie ein Brief liest, und bei dessen Lektüre der Empfänger überhaupt nicht klug wird, worauf die Schreiberin eigentlich hinaus will.“
This word in other languages
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.