shaitan
[ʃaɪˈtɑn]
The verdict
“shaitan” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Satan, der Teufel
Corpus desk
Index DE-shaitan · shaitan · German
shaitan · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 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 | shaitan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃaɪˈtɑn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „shaitan“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
shaitan is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃaɪˈtɑn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Satan, der Teufel".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for shaitan, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is shaitan, spelled S-H-A-I-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1der Satan, der Teufel
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.