Schlafwagen
German, noun
Schlafwagen is spelled S-C-H-L-A-F-W-A-G-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 59,520th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schlafwagen is a German masculine noun meaning “sleeping car” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Schlafwägen is a different word: “plural of Schlafwagen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Wagen in einem Personenzug, in dem Betten für Fahrgäste bereitgehalten werden”.
What does Schlafwagen mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesleeping car
noun
- 1
plural of Schlafwagen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Wagen in einem Personenzug, in dem Betten für Fahrgäste bereitgehalten werden
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 Schlafwagen
- Schlafwagens genitive
- Schlafwägen plural
- Schlafwagen alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Schlafwagen in German?
Schlafwagen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).