schwarzsehen
[ˈʃvaʁt͡sˌzeːən]
The verdict
“schwarzsehen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fernsehen, ohne Rundfunkgebühren bezahlt zu haben
Corpus desk
Index DE-schwarzsehen · schwarzsehen · German
schwarzsehen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | schwarzsehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʃvaʁt͡sˌzeːən] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „schwarzsehen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
schwarzsehen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈʃvaʁt͡sˌzeːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for schwarzsehen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is schwarzsehen, spelled S-C-H-W-A-R-Z-S-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1fernsehen, ohne Rundfunkgebühren bezahlt zu haben
- 2für die Zukunft negative Erwartungen haben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schwarzsehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das gesamte Haus sieht seit Jahren schwarz.
Bei diesem Wirtschaftsgeschehen kann man für die Zukunft nur schwarzsehen.
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.