Schimmer
German, noun
Schimmer is spelled S-C-H-I-M-M-E-R (8 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written German, the 16,394th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schimmer is a German masculine noun meaning “gleam, glimmer, flicker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schimmer is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “matter Lichtschein, schwacher Glanz”.
What does Schimmer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegleam, glimmer, flicker
- 2
masculineclue
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. matter Lichtschein, schwacher Glanz 2. geringe Kenntnis von etwas
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 Schimmer
- Schimmers genitive
- Schimmern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schimmer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schimmer in German?
Schimmer appears 3.4 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).