scientists

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The verdict

“scientists” is uncommon German (frequency #80,905 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,905
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs scientist

Corpus desk

Index DE-scientists · scientists · German

scientists · rank #80,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,905
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Schwerhörigke…

Nearest frequency peer: Schwerhörigkeit (-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 „scientists“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „scientists“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for scientists
PropertyValue
Headwordscientists
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters10
Frequency rank#80,905
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „scientists“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).scientistsfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Schwerhörigkeit“ (#80,904), „Scirocco“ (#80,906), „Schwarzbach“ (#80,903). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „scientists“ bei #80,905. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

scientists is uncommon German at frequency #80,905 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs scientist".

Zero misspellings are on record for scientists in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is scientists, spelled S-C-I-E-N-T-I-S-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs scientist

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "scientists"?
"scientists" is spelled S-C-I-E-N-T-I-S-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "scientists" mean?
As a noun, "scientists" means: Plural des Substantivs scientist
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "scientists", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Sehschärfe#80,913seismische#80,916Schlawiner#80,888Silbermann#80,924

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list