Durchschnitt
German, noun
Durchschnitt is spelled D-U-R-C-H-S-C-H-N-I-T-T (12 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written German, the 3,812th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Durchschnitt is a German masculine noun meaning “average” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, durchschnitt is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent preterite”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Summe der Eigenschaften verschiedener Dinge, geteilt durch deren Anzahl”.
What does Durchschnitt mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaverage
- 2
masculineintersection
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent preterite
- 2
first/third-person singular preterite
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Summe der Eigenschaften verschiedener Dinge, geteilt durch deren Anzahl 2. ungefährer Erfahrungswert; Objekt oder Wesen mit „normalen“ Eigenschaften seiner Klasse 3. Vorgang des Durchschneidens 4. Elemente, die zu allen Ausgangsmengen gehören
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 Durchschnitt
- Durchschnittes genitive
- Durchschnitts genitive
- Durchschnitte plural
- Durchschnitten dative definite plural
- ⌀ symbol
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Durchschnitt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Durchschnitt in German?
Durchschnitt appears 21 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).