Schall
German, noun
Schall is spelled S-C-H-A-L-L (6 letters) and appears 2.9 times per million words in written German, the 18,511th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schall is a German masculine noun meaning “sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schall is a different word: “singular imperative of schallen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “alle möglichen Geräusche, Klänge und Töne”.
What does Schall mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesound
- 2
masculinea resonating sound, one that is either very loud or reverberant
verb
- 1
singular imperative of schallen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. alle möglichen Geräusche, Klänge und Töne
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 Schall
- Schalles genitive
- Schalls genitive
- Schälle plural rare
- Schalle plural rare
- Schällen dative definite plural
- Schallen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schall
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schall in German?
Schall appears 2.9 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).