Shoah

[ˈʃoːa]

/[ˈʃoːa]/ noun

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The verdict

“Shoah” is uncommon German (frequency #50,048 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,048
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - massenhafte, systematische Verfolgung, Deportation, Vertreibung, Gettoisierung und Vernichtung europäischer Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland

Corpus desk

Index DE-shoah · Shoah · German

Shoah · rank #50,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,048
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH sicherem

Nearest frequency peer: sicherem (+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 „Shoah“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Shoah
PropertyValue
HeadwordShoah
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈʃoːa]
Letters5
Frequency rank#50,048
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Shoah“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Shoahfällt 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: „sicherem“ (#50,049), „Sicherheitskräften“ (#50,050), „Servers“ (#50,044). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „Shoah“ bei #50,048. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Shoah is uncommon German at frequency #50,048 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃoːa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "massenhafte, systematische Verfolgung, Deportation, Vertreibung, Gettoisierung und Vernichtung europäischer Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Shoah, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 Shoah, spelled S-H-O-A-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    massenhafte, systematische Verfolgung, Deportation, Vertreibung, Gettoisierung und Vernichtung europäischer Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Shoah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Vor der Shoah war die jüdische Gemeinde Polens die größte in Europa, doch von den 3,25 Millionen polnischen Juden haben nur 250 000 den Weltkrieg überlebt.“
  2. „Zudem schließt die Gleichsetzung von Judentum und Schoah 60 Prozent der französischen Juden aus, weil sie aus Nordafrika sind und die Shoah nicht erlitten haben.“

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 "Shoah"?
"Shoah" is spelled S-H-O-A-H. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈʃoːa].
What does "Shoah" mean?
As a noun, "Shoah" means: massenhafte, systematische Verfolgung, Deportation, Vertreibung, Gettoisierung und Vernichtung europäischer Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland
How do you pronounce "Shoah"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Shoah" is [ˈʃoːa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Shoah" come from?
"Shoah" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Quint#49,989prank#49,972Unrat#50,131nagen#49,922

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list