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Schmatz

German, noun

Schmatz is spelled S-C-H-M-A-T-Z (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 80,178th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schmatz is a German masculine noun meaning “smacker, smackeroo, a loud kiss” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schmatz is a different word: “singular imperative of schmatzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(mit einem schmatzenden Geräusch verbundener) Kuss”.

What does Schmatz mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    informalmasculinesmacker, smackeroo, a loud kiss

verb

as schmatz
  1. 1

    singular imperative of schmatzen

  2. 2

    colloquialfirst-person singular present of schmatzen

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. (mit einem schmatzenden Geräusch verbundener) Kuss

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 Schmatz

  • Schmatzes genitive
  • Schmatze plural
  • Schmätze plural
  • Schmatzen dative definite plural
  • Schmätzen dative definite plural
  • Schmatzer variant casual
  • Schmätzchen diminutive

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is Schmatz in German?

Schmatz appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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