schmäler
German, adjective
schmäler is spelled S-C-H-M-Ä-L-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). Schmäler is a German adjective meaning “comparative degree of schmal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, schmaler is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”.
What does schmäler mean in English?
adjective
- 1
comparative degree of schmal
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
unknown: 1. Komparativ von schmal
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 schmäler
- schmaler variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is schmäler in German?
schmäler 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).