schick
German, adjective
schick is spelled S-C-H-I-C-K (6 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written German, the 4,608th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schick is a German adjective meaning “elegant, dressy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an imperative of schicken. With a capital, Schick is a different word: “chic”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “von Mode und Geschmack zeugend”.
What does schick mean in English?
adjective
- 1
elegant, dressy
verb
- 1
imperative of schicken
noun
- 1
masculinechic
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. von Mode und Geschmack zeugend 2. sich positiv abhebend, hervorragend
noun: 1. vornehme Aufmachung 2. aufwendige und geschmackvolle Aufmachung
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 schick
- schicker masculine nominative singular
- am schicksten superlative
- schicke feminine nominative singular
- schickes neuter nominative singular
- schicken genitive masculine singular
- schickem dative masculine singular
- der schicke definite includes-article masculine
- die schicke definite feminine includes-article
- das schicke definite includes-article neuter
- die schicken definite includes-article nominative
- des schicken definite genitive includes-article
- der schicken definite feminine genitive
- dem schicken dative definite includes-article
- chic alternative
- Chic alternative
- Schicks genitive singular
- Schickes genitive singular
- Schicke dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schick
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schick in German?
schick appears 17 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).