Schachtofen
German, noun
Schachtofen is spelled S-C-H-A-C-H-T-O-F-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written German, the 440,316th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schachtofen is a German masculine noun meaning “shaft furnace” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Schachtöfen is a different word: “plural of Schachtofen”.
What does Schachtofen mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshaft furnace
noun
- 1
masculineplural of Schachtofen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Schachtofen
- Schachtofens genitive
- Schachtöfen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Schachtofen in German?
Schachtofen appears about once in every 52 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).