scheinen
\ˈʃaɪ̯nən\
The verdict
“scheinen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Briller en parlant d'un astre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scheinen · scheinen · French
scheinen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | scheinen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈʃaɪ̯nən\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scheinen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scheinen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈʃaɪ̯nən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for scheinen in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 French form is scheinen, spelled S-C-H-E-I-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1Briller en parlant d'un astre.
- 2(Copulatif) Paraître, sembler, avoir l’air, figurer.
- 3Sembler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scheinen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Sonne scheint.
Der Wettergott meint es dieses Jahr nicht gut mit dem Oktoberfest: mal schüttet es, mal nieselt es, aber die Sonne scheint nicht.
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.