Scheide
German, noun
Scheide is spelled S-C-H-E-I-D-E (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written German, the 24,295th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scheide is a German feminine noun meaning “sheath, scabbard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, scheide is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Transport- oder Aufbewahrungsbehälter für Hieb- und Stichwaffen”.
What does Scheide mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesheath, scabbard
- 2
femininevagina
- 3
femininepartition, border, limit
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Transport- oder Aufbewahrungsbehälter für Hieb- und Stichwaffen 2. weibliches primäres inneres Geschlechtsorgan
noun: 1. Grenze oder Grenzlinie
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 Scheide
- Scheiden plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Scheide
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Scheide in German?
Scheide appears 2.0 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).