stibitzen
[ʃtiˈbɪt͡sn̩]
The verdict
“stibitzen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas geschickt oder unbemerkt wegnehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-stibitzen · stibitzen · German
stibitzen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stibitzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʃtiˈbɪt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „stibitzen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
stibitzen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ʃtiˈbɪt͡sn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "etwas geschickt oder unbemerkt wegnehmen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stibitzen, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is stibitzen, spelled S-T-I-B-I-T-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas geschickt oder unbemerkt wegnehmen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stibitzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Elster stibitzte sich ein Stück Brot vom Tisch, während keiner hinsah.
This word in other languages
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.