Schuldgefühl
[ˈʃʊltɡəˌfyːl]
The verdict
“Schuldgefühl” is uncommon German (frequency #83,272 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,272
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - persönlicher Eindruck, durch falsches Verhalten etwas Negatives bewirkt oder nicht verhindert zu haben
Corpus desk
Index DE-schuldgefuhl · Schuldgefühl · German
Schuldgefühl · rank #83,272 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,272
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schröpfen
Nearest frequency peer: schröpfen (-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 „Schuldgefühl“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schokoladen…
Schokoladenfabrik
16,733 corpus weight
- Schrotthänd…
Schrotthändler
16,731 corpus weight
- schröpfen
schröpfen
16,730 corpus weight
- Schuldgefühl
Schuldgefühl
16,729 corpus weight
- Schussenried
Schussenried
16,726 corpus weight
- Schutzumsch…
Schutzumschlag
16,725 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Schuldgefühl“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schuldgefühl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃʊltɡəˌfyːl] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #83,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schuldgefühl“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schuldgefühl is uncommon German at frequency #83,272 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃʊltɡəˌfyːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "persönlicher Eindruck, durch falsches Verhalten etwas Negatives bewirkt oder nicht verhindert zu haben".
Schuldgefühl doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Schuldgefühl, spelled S-C-H-U-L-D-G-E-F-Ü-H-L.
Definition
- 1persönlicher Eindruck, durch falsches Verhalten etwas Negatives bewirkt oder nicht verhindert zu haben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schuldgefühl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mich plagten danach ungeheuerliche Schuldgefühle.“
„Eleanora erleidet einen Schock und wird ins Krankenhaus gebracht, aus dem sie einen Monat später mit einem Schuldgefühl wieder herauskommt, das sie nie mehr loslassen wird.“
Synonyms
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.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).