Schauder
German, noun
Schauder is spelled S-C-H-A-U-D-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 46,552nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schauder is a German masculine noun meaning “shudder, shiver, creeps, frisson, grue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schauder is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “plötzliches Gespür von Kälte”.
What does Schauder mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshudder, shiver, creeps, frisson, grue
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. plötzliches Gespür von Kälte 2. plötzliches Gefühl des Abscheus, der Angst, des Entsetzens
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 Schauder
- Schauders genitive
- Schaudern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schauder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schauder in German?
Schauder appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).