Schiffe
German, noun
Schiffe is spelled S-C-H-I-F-F-E (7 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written German, the 3,720th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schiffe is a German noun meaning “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Schiff "ships"” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schiffe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “flüssiges Ausscheidungsprodukt der Harnblase”.
What does Schiffe mean in English?
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Schiff "ships"
- 2
archaicdative singular of Schiff
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. flüssiges Ausscheidungsprodukt der Harnblase
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is Schiffe in German?
Schiffe appears 21 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).