Schmirgel
German, noun
Schmirgel is spelled S-C-H-M-I-R-G-E-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written German, the 282,248th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schmirgel is a German masculine noun meaning “emery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schmirgel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “als Schleifmittel verwendetes feinkörniges Gestein”.
What does Schmirgel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineemery
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. als Schleifmittel verwendetes feinkörniges Gestein
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 Schmirgel
- Schmirgels genitive
- Schmirgeln dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schmirgel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schmirgel in German?
Schmirgel appears about once in every 24 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).