Schläfe
German, noun
Schläfe is spelled S-C-H-L-Ä-F-E (7 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written German, the 9,010th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schläfe is a German feminine noun meaning “temple (region of skull)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, schlafe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “der Bereich zwischen Ohr und Auge, auf dem man beim Schlafen liegt”.
What does Schläfe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetemple (region of skull)
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. der Bereich zwischen Ohr und Auge, auf dem man beim Schlafen liegt
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 Schläfe
- Schläfen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schläfe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schläfe in German?
Schläfe appears 7.4 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).