Slideshow
[ˈslaɪ̯tˌʃɔʊ̯]
The verdict
“Slideshow” is uncommon German (frequency #90,906 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,906
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Serie von digitalen Bildern, die automatisch auf einem Bildschirm abläuft
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Slideshow |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈslaɪ̯tˌʃɔʊ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Slideshow” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Slideshow is uncommon German at frequency #90,906 among 107,600 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈslaɪ̯tˌʃɔʊ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Serie von digitalen Bildern, die automatisch auf einem Bildschirm abläuft".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Slideshow, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Slideshow, spelled S-L-I-D-E-S-H-O-W.
Definition
- 1Serie von digitalen Bildern, die automatisch auf einem Bildschirm abläuft
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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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Using “Slideshow”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-L-I-D-E-S-H-O-W - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈslaɪ̯tˌʃɔʊ̯] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.