Schelte
German, noun
Schelte is spelled S-C-H-E-L-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 65,066th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schelte is a German feminine noun meaning “scolding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schelte is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “laut geäußerter Tadel, Zurechtweisung (in Österreich gehoben)”.
What does Schelte mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininescolding
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. laut geäußerter Tadel, Zurechtweisung (in Österreich gehoben)
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 Schelte
- Schelten plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schelte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schelte in German?
Schelte appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).