Schein
German, noun
Schein is spelled S-C-H-E-I-N (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,291st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schein is a German masculine noun meaning “shine, gleam, flash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schein is a different word: “singular imperative of scheinen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schwaches Leuchten (Schimmer) bis helles grelles Blenden”.
What does Schein mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshine, gleam, flash
- 2
masculinesemblance, appearance
- 3
masculineellipsis of Geldschein: banknote
- 4
masculineslangA case which a medical professional liquidates by invoice
- 5
masculineAn individual class’s course credit (because till even the 2010s one would actually get a slip of paper)
prefix
- 1
pseudo-
verb
- 1
singular imperative of scheinen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. schwaches Leuchten (Schimmer) bis helles grelles Blenden 2. Bescheinigung, Geldnote, Quittung, schriftlicher Nachweis 3. äußeres Bild von einem Objekt, auch mit Zweifel bezüglich der Richtigkeit, auch bezogen auf das Verhalten einer Person möglich
prefix: 1. nur zum Schein, nicht wahrhaftig, wirklich
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 Schein
- Scheines genitive
- Scheins genitive
- Scheine plural
- Scheinen dative definite plural
- Sch. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schein
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schein in German?
Schein appears 11 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).