screens

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The verdict

“screens” is uncommon German (frequency #52,415 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,415
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index DE-screens · screens · German

screens · rank #52,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,415
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sechsjährige

Nearest frequency peer: Sechsjährige (+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 „screens“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for screens
PropertyValue
Headwordscreens
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#52,415
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „screens“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).screensfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Sechsjährige“ (#52,416), „schüchternen“ (#52,413), „sehbehinderte“ (#52,417). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „screens“ bei #52,415. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

screens is uncommon German at frequency #52,415 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs screen".

Zero misspellings are on record for screens in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

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 screens, spelled S-C-R-E-E-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs screen

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 "screens"?
"screens" is spelled S-C-R-E-E-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "screens" mean?
As a noun, "screens" means: Plural des Substantivs screen
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

schweig#52,408Schwank#52,405Spindel#52,446Stummer#52,466

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list