Flugscham
German, noun/ˈfluːkˌʃaːm/
Flugscham is spelled F-L-U-G-S-C-H-A-M (9 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written German, the 339,062nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flugscham is a German feminine noun meaning “flight shame” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Empfinden der Reue / etwas Falsches zu tun bei Benutzung eines Flugzeugs, ausgelöst durch das Bewusstsein der…”.
What does Flugscham mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineflight shame
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Empfinden der Reue / etwas Falsches zu tun bei Benutzung eines Flugzeugs, ausgelöst durch das Bewusstsein der negativen Folgen für die Umwelt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce Flugscham?
- /ˈfluːkˌʃaːm/
- [ˈfluːkˌʃaːm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Flugscham in German?
Flugscham appears about once in every 33 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).