schriller

[ˈʃʁɪlɐ]

/[ˈʃʁɪlɐ]/ adj

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The verdict

“schriller” is uncommon German (frequency #82,106 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#82,106
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrill

Corpus desk

Index DE-schriller · schriller · German

schriller · rank #82,106 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #82,106
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Schriftrollen

Nearest frequency peer: Schriftrollen (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „schriller“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „schriller“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for schriller
PropertyValue
Headwordschriller
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈʃʁɪlɐ]
Letters9
Frequency rank#82,106
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „schriller“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).schrillerfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Schriftrollen“ (#82,105), „Schrödinger“ (#82,107), „schreite“ (#82,104). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „schriller“ bei #82,106. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

schriller is uncommon German at frequency #82,106 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈʃʁɪlɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

schriller doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

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. The correct German form is schriller, spelled S-C-H-R-I-L-L-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrill
  2. 2
    Genitiv Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrill
  3. 3
    Dativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrill
  4. 4
    Genitiv Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrill
  5. 5
    Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrill

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "schriller"?
"schriller" is spelled S-C-H-R-I-L-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃʁɪlɐ].
What does "schriller" mean?
As an adjective, "schriller" means: Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs schrill
How do you pronounce "schriller"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "schriller" is [ˈʃʁɪlɐ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "schriller" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "schriller", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Schnörkel#82,102schnorren#82,101schulisch#82,112schmiegen#82,098

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list