scheiteln
German, verb
scheiteln is spelled S-C-H-E-I-T-E-L-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written German, the 326,119th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scheiteln is a German verb meaning “to endow with a part (dividing line between hair combed in different directions)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Scheiteln is a different word: “dative plural of Scheitel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Haare so teilen, dass ein Teil nach links, der andere nach rechts fällt”.
What does scheiteln mean in English?
verb
- 1
to endow with a part (dividing line between hair combed in different directions)
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Scheitel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Haare so teilen, dass ein Teil nach links, der andere nach rechts fällt
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 scheiteln
- scheitelt present singular third-person
- scheitelte past
- gescheitelt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- scheitelnd participle present
- scheitle first-person indicative present
- scheitele first-person indicative present
- scheitel first-person indicative present
- scheitelst indicative present second-person
- scheitelest second-person singular subjunctive
- scheitlest second-person singular subjunctive
- scheitelet plural second-person subjunctive
- scheitlet plural second-person subjunctive
- scheitelten first-person indicative plural
- scheiteltest indicative preterite second-person
- scheiteltet indicative plural preterite
- scheitel! imperative singular
- scheitele! imperative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to scheiteln
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is scheiteln in German?
scheiteln appears about once in every 31 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).