Scherzartikel
German, noun[ˈʃɛʁt͡sʔaʁˌtiːkl̩]
Scherzartikel is spelled S-C-H-E-R-Z-A-R-T-I-K-E-L (13 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 129,075th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scherzartikel is a German masculine noun meaning “practical joke device” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Kleines, recht Wertloses, das man kauft, um andere zu erschrecken, zum Lachen zu bringen, auf den Arm…”.
What does Scherzartikel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepractical joke device
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. etwas Kleines, recht Wertloses, das man kauft, um andere zu erschrecken, zum Lachen zu bringen, auf den Arm zu nehmen
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 Scherzartikel
- Scherzartikels genitive
- Scherzartikeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Scherzartikel?
- [ˈʃɛʁt͡sʔaʁˌtiːkl̩]
- [ˈʃɛʁt͡sʔaʁˌtɪkl̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Scherzartikel in German?
Scherzartikel appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).