The word schadenfreude is a German loanword meaning joy form the misfortune of others. Due to spelling differences between English and German, the word is hard to spell to non-English speakers, which would guess to spell /ʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə/ as "shardenfroyder" or somesuch. A further consequence of its eldritchness is that the word is often mangled and rarely pronounced properly in the first place. Consequently English equivalent is often sought, for byspell frayns in yahoo answers and the section "English equivalents" in Wikipedia's page on Schadenfreude.