schüchtern
\ˈʃʏçtɐn\
The verdict
“schüchtern” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Timide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-schuchtern · schüchtern · French
schüchtern · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | schüchtern |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈʃʏçtɐn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « schüchtern » en français
Rare enough to double-check
schüchtern is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈʃʏçtɐn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Timide.".
No misspelling variants are generated for schüchtern in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 schüchtern, spelled S-C-H-Ü-C-H-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1Timide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how schüchtern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jetzt sei nicht so schüchtern und sag den netten Leuten deinen Namen!
Sie hat die Abwesenheit von Viktor genutzt, um mit diesem muskulösen Jungen zu schlafen, der voller Energie und schüchtern und frech zugleich ist, aber in ihrem Milieu zieht die Tatsache, mit jemandem zu schlafen, keinerlei Konsequenzen nach sich.
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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.