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Schraube

German, noun

Schraube is a German feminine noun meaning “most iconically, a screw in the sense of a fluted fastener” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schraube is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Stift mit Gewinde, der in eine Unterlage oder in ein Schraubenmutter genanntes Gegenstück gedreht wird”.

What does Schraube mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemost iconically, a screw in the sense of a fluted fastener

    die Schrauben anziehen

  2. 2

    femininea propeller advancing by helical movement

  3. 3

    femininethe simple machine called screw

  4. 4

    femininethe abstracted form things may acquire called helix

  5. 5

    femininea spiral movement, a spin around the longitudinal axis

  6. 6

    femininea spiral movement around the longitudinal axis formalized in athletics

verb

as schraube
  1. 1

    first-person singular present

  2. 2

    singular imperative

  3. 3

    first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Stift mit Gewinde, der in eine Unterlage oder in ein Schraubenmutter genanntes Gegenstück gedreht wird 2. als Schiffsschraube bezeichneter unter Wasser laufender Propeller 3. Drehung um die Längsachse des Körpers 4. räumliche Kurve mit gleichmäßiger Steigung auf der Mantelfläche eines Zylinders

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Schraube

  • Schrauben plural
  • Schräubchen diminutive neuter
  • Schräublein diminutive neuter
  • Schrauberl diminutive neuter

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Schraube

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Schraube in German?

Schraube appears 3.5 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).