sich vor seinem eigenen Schatten fürchten
[zɪç foːɐ̯ zaɪ̯nəm ˈaɪ̯ɡənən ˈʃatn̩ ˈfʏʁçtn̩]
The verdict
“sich vor seinem eigenen Schatten fürchten” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 41
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — sehr ängstlich, furchtsam sein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sich vor seinem eigenen Schatten fürchten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [zɪç foːɐ̯ zaɪ̯nəm ˈaɪ̯ɡənən ˈʃatn̩ ˈfʏʁçtn̩] |
| Letters | 41 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sich vor seinem eigenen Schatten fürchten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sich vor seinem eigenen Schatten fürchten is 41 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zɪç foːɐ̯ zaɪ̯nəm ˈaɪ̯ɡənən ˈʃatn̩ ˈfʏʁçtn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sehr ängstlich, furchtsam sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for sich vor seinem eigenen Schatten fürchten in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 sich vor seinem eigenen Schatten fürchten, spelled S-I-C-H- -V-O-R- -S-E-I-N-E-M- -E-I-G-E-N-E-N- -S-C-H-A-T-T-E-N- -F-Ü-R-C-H-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sehr ängstlich, furchtsam sein
Antonyms
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.
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- The one correct German spelling is S-I-C-H- -V-O-R- -S-E-I-N-E-M- -E-I-G-E-N-E-N- -S-C-H-A-T-T-E-N- -F-Ü-R-C-H-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [zɪç foːɐ̯ zaɪ̯nəm ˈaɪ̯ɡənən ˈʃatn̩ ˈfʏʁçtn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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