Schulter
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,158
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Schulter is aGermannoun. It means: Körperregion bei Wirbeltieren zwischen Halsansatz und den Schultergelenken Pronounced [ˈʃʊltɐ]. It ranks #4,158 in German word frequency. Often confused with Schulze and Schütte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schulter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃʊltɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schulter is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃʊltɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,158 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Schulter, with forms such as "cshulter", "scchulter", and "schhulter". 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, "Schulze", "Schütte", "Schuster", 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 Schulter, spelled S-C-H-U-L-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Körperregion bei Wirbeltieren zwischen Halsansatz und den Schultergelenken
- 2Teil der Kleidung, der die Schulter^([1]) bedeckt
- 3Fleisch des oberen Vorderbeins bei Wirbeltieren
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cshulter,scchulter,schhulter,schluter,schuletr,schullter,schulterr,schultre,schultter,schutler,scuhlter,shculter,sschulter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Schulter
Misspelling Variants of "Schulter"
Frequency rank: #4,158 in German
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