The word "schnetzer" is a German surname that is not commonly encountered in English. It is spelled using the German orthography, with the initial "sch" indicating a voiceless palatal fricative sound (/ʃ/) followed by an "n" (/n/) and a "etzer" (/ɛtsər/) which is pronounced with a voiceless alveolar affricate (/ts/) and then a syllabic "er" (/ər/). The correct pronunciation of "schnetzer" can thus be transcribed in IPA as /ʃnɛtsər/.