Schurkerei
[ʃʊʁkəˈʁaɪ̯]
The verdict
“Schurkerei” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - niederträchtige/schurkische Handlungsweise oder Tat
Corpus desk
Index DE-schurkerei · Schurkerei · German
Schurkerei · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | Schurkerei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃʊʁkəˈʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schurkerei“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schurkerei is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃʊʁkəˈʁaɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "niederträchtige/schurkische Handlungsweise oder Tat".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schurkerei, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Schurkerei, spelled S-C-H-U-R-K-E-R-E-I.
Definition
- 1niederträchtige/schurkische Handlungsweise oder Tat
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Schurkerei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich legte ihm dar, daß er unbedingt höchst vorsichtig sein müsse, denn es wäre die erbärmlichste Schurkerei, wenn seinetwegen das unvergleichliche Geschöpf, das er verführt hatte, ins Unglück geraten würde.“
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.