Scharfsinn
German, noun/ˈʃaʁfˌzɪn/
Scharfsinn is spelled S-C-H-A-R-F-S-I-N-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 71,199th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scharfsinn is a German masculine noun meaning “acumen, perspicacity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Fähigkeit, das Wesentliche an einer Sache im Kern zu erkennen; scharfer Verstand”.
What does Scharfsinn mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineacumen, perspicacity
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fähigkeit, das Wesentliche an einer Sache im Kern zu erkennen; scharfer Verstand
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 Scharfsinn
- Scharfsinnes genitive
- Scharfsinns genitive
- Scharfsinne plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Scharfsinn?
- /ˈʃaʁfˌzɪn/
- [ˈʃaʁfˌzɪn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Scharfsinn
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Scharfsinn in German?
Scharfsinn appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).