Scheffel
German, noun
Scheffel is spelled S-C-H-E-F-F-E-L (8 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written German, the 30,497th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scheffel is a German masculine noun meaning “bushel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, scheffel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “altes, deutsches Hohlmaß für schüttbare, feste Körper (zum Beispiel Getreide), das je nach Gegend 0,2 bis 2,2…”.
What does Scheffel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebushel
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. altes, deutsches Hohlmaß für schüttbare, feste Körper (zum Beispiel Getreide), das je nach Gegend 0,2 bis 2,2 hl entsprach 2. Gegenstand, um schüttbare, feste Körper zu messen
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 Scheffel
- Scheffels genitive
- Scheffeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Scheffel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Scheffel in German?
Scheffel appears 1.4 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).