Scharlatan
German, noun[ˈʃaʁlatan]
Scharlatan is spelled S-C-H-A-R-L-A-T-A-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 78,979th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scharlatan is a German masculine noun meaning “charlatan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Betrüger, Schwindler, der besonderes Wissen, magische Fähigkeiten oder übernatürliche Gaben zu besitzen…”.
What does Scharlatan mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecharlatan
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Betrüger, Schwindler, der besonderes Wissen, magische Fähigkeiten oder übernatürliche Gaben zu besitzen vorgibt
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 Scharlatan
- Scharlatans genitive
- Scharlatane plural
- Scharlatanen dative definite plural
- Scharlatanin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Scharlatan?
- [ˈʃaʁlatan]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Scharlatan
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Scharlatan in German?
Scharlatan appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).