schiefergrau
German, adjective
schiefergrau is spelled S-C-H-I-E-F-E-R-G-R-A-U (12 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written German, the 189,851st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schiefergrau is a German adjective meaning “slate gray” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schiefergrau is a different word: “slate gray”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Farbe von Schiefer habend”.
What does schiefergrau mean in English?
adjective
- 1
slate gray
noun
- 1
neuterslate gray
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. die Farbe von Schiefer habend
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 schiefergrau
- schiefergrauer masculine nominative singular
- schiefergraue feminine nominative singular
- schiefergraues neuter nominative singular
- schiefergrauen genitive masculine singular
- schiefergrauem dative masculine singular
- der schiefergraue definite includes-article masculine
- die schiefergraue definite feminine includes-article
- das schiefergraue definite includes-article neuter
- die schiefergrauen definite includes-article nominative
- des schiefergrauen definite genitive includes-article
- der schiefergrauen definite feminine genitive
- dem schiefergrauen dative definite includes-article
- den schiefergrauen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schiefergrau
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schiefergrau in German?
schiefergrau appears about once in every 12 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).