Schulterzucken
[ˈʃʊltɐˌt͡sʊkn̩]
The verdict
“Schulterzucken” is an uncommon German word, ranked #79,701 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #79,701
- frequency rank, German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - kurzes Anheben einer oder beider Schultern (oft als Geste der Gleichgültigkeit oder Unwissenheit über etwas)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schulterzucken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃʊltɐˌt͡sʊkn̩] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #79,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Schulterzucken” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Schulterzucken is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃʊltɐˌt͡sʊkn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #79,701 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "kurzes Anheben einer oder beider Schultern (oft als Geste der Gleichgültigkeit oder Unwissenheit über etwas)".
Schulterzucken doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Schulterzucken, spelled S-C-H-U-L-T-E-R-Z-U-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1kurzes Anheben einer oder beider Schultern (oft als Geste der Gleichgültigkeit oder Unwissenheit über etwas)
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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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Using “Schulterzucken”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-C-H-U-L-T-E-R-Z-U-C-K-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃʊltɐˌt͡sʊkn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.