Shutdown
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#71,842
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Shutdown is aGermannoun. It means: Herunterfahren eines Rechners, sodass dieser in einen Ruhezustand versetzt wird Pronounced [ˈʃatdaʊ̯n].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Shutdown |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃatdaʊ̯n] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Shutdown is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃatdaʊ̯n]. Corpus data places it at rank #71,842 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Shutdown in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Shutdown, spelled S-H-U-T-D-O-W-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Herunterfahren eines Rechners, sodass dieser in einen Ruhezustand versetzt wird
- 2Situation, in der weite Teile der Behörden eines Landes infolge nicht bewilligter Haushaltsmittel lahmgelegt sind; gelegentlich in den USA vorkommend, dort blockieren sich dann der US-Senat, das Repräsentantenhaus und der Präsident gegenseitig
- 3Form des Unterbindens von Kontakten zwischen Menschen, um ein Ansteckungsrisiko zu minimieren, zum Beispiel indem Bezirke abgeriegelt werden oder Ausgangssperren verhängt werden, das öffentliche Leben komplett runtergefahren wird
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Frequency rank: #71,842 in German
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