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geschickt

German, adjective[ɡəˈʃɪkt]

geschickt is spelled G-E-S-C-H-I-C-K-T (9 letters) and appears 41 times per million words in written German, the 2,063rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geschickt is a German adjective meaning “adept, habile, skillful, clever” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of schicken. The German Wiktionary defines it as “von hoher, guter Handfertigkeit, Handwerklichkeit”.

What does geschickt mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    adept, habile, skillful, clever

    Mit Hilfe eines geschickten Marketings wuchs das Unternehmen schnell.

adverb

  1. 1

    adeptly, skillfully

    geschickt miteinander verbinden

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of schicken

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. von hoher, guter Handfertigkeit, Handwerklichkeit 2. wohldurchdacht und erfolgreich handelnd

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 geschickt

  • geschickter masculine nominative singular
  • am geschicktesten superlative
  • geschickte feminine nominative singular
  • geschicktes neuter nominative singular
  • geschickten genitive masculine singular
  • geschicktem dative masculine singular
  • der geschickte definite includes-article masculine
  • die geschickte definite feminine includes-article
  • das geschickte definite includes-article neuter
  • die geschickten definite includes-article nominative
  • des geschickten definite genitive includes-article
  • der geschickten definite feminine genitive
  • dem geschickten dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce geschickt?

  • [ɡəˈʃɪkt]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to geschickt

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

How common is geschickt in German?

geschickt appears 41 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).

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