Schaft
German, noun[ʃaft]
Schaft is spelled S-C-H-A-F-T (6 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written German, the 17,258th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schaft is a German masculine noun meaning “shaft (pole)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Griff an einer Stange und an anderen länglichen Gegenständen”.
What does Schaft mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshaft (pole)
- 2
masculineupper (of a shoe), leg (of a boot)
suffix
- 1
feminine-ship, -hood
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein Griff an einer Stange und an anderen länglichen Gegenständen 2. das Längliche an einem Gegenstand selbst 3. vom Oberleder gebildeter Teil des Schuhs, die Wade umschließender Teil des Stiefels 4. ein Bauteil des Webstuhls
suffix: 1. nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement (Derivatem, Wortbildungsmorphem), das dazu dient, Substantive abzuleiten, um „personale Kollektivbegriffe“ (Burschenschaft …) oder abstrakte Kollektivbegriffe (Landschaft …) zu bilden
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 Schaft
- Schaftes genitive
- Schafts genitive
- Schäfte plural
- Schafte dative singular
- Schäften dative definite plural
- Schäftchen diminutive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Schaft?
- [ʃaft]
- /ʃaft/
- [ʃäft]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Schaft
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schaft in German?
Schaft appears 3.2 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).