zuschieben
[ˈt͡suːˌʃiːbn̩]
The verdict
“zuschieben” is an uncommon German word, ranked #73,158 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #73,158
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - zumachen, indem etwas Bewegliches bewegt (geschoben) wird, zum Beispiel ein Riegel vor einen Eingang oder ein Haufen Sand in eine Baugrube
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zuschieben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt͡suːˌʃiːbn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zuschieben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for zuschieben is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡suːˌʃiːbn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #73,158 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.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for zuschieben, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct German form is zuschieben, spelled Z-U-S-C-H-I-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1zumachen, indem etwas Bewegliches bewegt (geschoben) wird, zum Beispiel ein Riegel vor einen Eingang oder ein Haufen Sand in eine Baugrube
- 2gleitend (schiebend) auf ein Ziel zu in Bewegung setzen
- 3(ungerechtfertigt, nicht ganz fair) zukommen/zuteilwerden lassen
Antonyms
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 “zuschieben”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Z-U-S-C-H-I-E-B-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈt͡suːˌʃiːbn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.