Stint
[ʃtɪnt]
The verdict
“Stint” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu den Lachsen gehörender, kleiner, silberglänzender Fisch
Corpus desk
Index DE-stint · Stint · German
Stint · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- 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 | Stint |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃtɪnt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Stint“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Stint is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃtɪnt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Stint has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists 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 Stint, spelled S-T-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1zu den Lachsen gehörender, kleiner, silberglänzender Fisch
- 2junger männlicher Mensch
- 3sich albern verhaltende Person
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Stint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der etwa 15 bis 20 Zentimeter lange Stint lebt in den europäischen Küstengewässern.“
„Von Februar bis April ziehen Stinte zum Laichen aus der Nordsee die Elbe hoch – eigentlich.“
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.