Schiefer
German, noun
Schiefer is spelled S-C-H-I-E-F-E-R (8 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written German, the 21,569th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schiefer is a German masculine noun meaning “shale, slate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schiefer is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zu dünnen Platten spaltbares Gestein”.
What does Schiefer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshale, slate
- 2
Austriamasculinesmall splinter (sharp piece of wood, etc.)
sich einen Schiefer einziehen
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
- 4
comparative degree of schief
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. zu dünnen Platten spaltbares Gestein 2. kleiner Splitter, Span
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 Schiefer
- Schiefers genitive
- Schiefern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schiefer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schiefer in German?
Schiefer appears 2.3 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).