Schläue
German, noun
Schläue is spelled S-C-H-L-Ä-U-E (7 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written German, the 21,569th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schläue is a German feminine noun meaning “shrewdness, slyness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, schlaue is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(praktisches) Wissen und Intelligenz, um bestimmte Ziele zu erreichen”.
What does Schläue mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineshrewdness, slyness
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (praktisches) Wissen und Intelligenz, um bestimmte Ziele zu erreichen
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 Schläue in German?
Schläue appears 2.3 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).