scientist
[ˈsʌɪəntɪst]
The verdict
“scientist” is uncommon German (frequency #76,149 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,149
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Naturwissenschaftler, Wissenschaftler
Corpus desk
Index DE-scientist · scientist · German
scientist · rank #76,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,149
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schürfen
Nearest frequency peer: schürfen (-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 „scientist“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Schäferhunde
Schäferhunde
23,854 corpus weight
- schürfen
schürfen
23,853 corpus weight
- scientist
scientist
23,852 corpus weight
- SdK
SdK
23,851 corpus weight
- Seereise
Seereise
23,850 corpus weight
- Seesen
Seesen
23,849 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „scientist“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scientist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsʌɪəntɪst] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „scientist“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
scientist is uncommon German at frequency #76,149 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈsʌɪəntɪst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Naturwissenschaftler, Wissenschaftler".
scientist has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is scientist, spelled S-C-I-E-N-T-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Naturwissenschaftler, Wissenschaftler
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scientist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Based on Keller's research, Valentine and other scientists took Alvin into the area in 2007 and discovered the source of the mystery.“
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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