Scanner
German, noun/ˈskɛnɐ/
Scanner is spelled S-C-A-N-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written German, the 15,594th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scanner is a German masculine noun meaning “scanner (device)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gerät zur berührungslosen digitalen Datenerfassung”.
What does Scanner mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescanner (device)
- 2
masculineone who scans
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gerät zur berührungslosen digitalen Datenerfassung 2. Gerät zur berührungslosen systematischen Suche 3. Antivirusprogramm 4. Programm zur Zerlegung einer Eingabe in logische Einheiten, lexikalischer Skanner
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 Scanner
- Scanners genitive
- Scannern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Scanner?
- /ˈskɛnɐ/
- [ˈskɛnɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Scanner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Scanner in German?
Scanner appears 3.6 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).