shower
[ˈʃaʊə]
The verdict
“shower” is uncommon German (frequency #68,674 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,674
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Regen, Schauer
Corpus desk
Index DE-shower · shower · German
shower · rank #68,674 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,674
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH shotgun
Nearest frequency peer: shotgun (-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 „shower“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- serve
serve
31,332 corpus weight
- shareholder
shareholder
31,329 corpus weight
- shotgun
shotgun
31,328 corpus weight
- shower
shower
31,327 corpus weight
- simulierte
simulierte
31,325 corpus weight
- Skinhead
Skinhead
31,322 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „shower“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shower |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃaʊə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „shower“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
shower is uncommon German at frequency #68,674 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃaʊə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for shower in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 shower, spelled S-H-O-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1Regen, Schauer
- 2Dusche
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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