Schande
German, noun
Schande is spelled S-C-H-A-N-D-E (7 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written German, the 5,161st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schande is a German feminine noun meaning “disgrace, infamy, dishonour (state or result considered highly disreputable for whoever is responsible)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, schände is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas, was jemandem in seinem Ansehen stark schadet”.
What does Schande mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedisgrace, infamy, dishonour (state or result considered highly disreputable for whoever is responsible)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
- 3
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. etwas, was jemandem in seinem Ansehen stark schadet 2. ein empörender, skandalöser Vorgang
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Schande
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schande in German?
Schande appears 14 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).