schmuck
German, adjective
schmuck is spelled S-C-H-M-U-C-K (7 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written German, the 4,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schmuck is a German adjective meaning “pretty, spruce” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schmuck is a different word: “jewelry”. With an umlaut, schmück is a different word: “singular imperative of schmücken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “veraltend: von ansprechendem oder angenehmem Aussehen”.
What does schmuck mean in English?
adjective
- 1
datedpretty, spruce
noun
- 1
masculinejewelry
- 2
masculineornament, decoration
verb
- 1
singular imperative of schmücken
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of schmücken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Objekte oder Elemente, die der Verschönerung oder Verzierung eines Gegenstandes oder eines Lebewesens dienen 2. Objekte, die zur Zierde von Personen oder deren Kleidung dienen, wie zum Beispiel Tattoos
adjective: 1. veraltend: von ansprechendem oder angenehmem Aussehen
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 schmuck
- schmucker masculine nominative singular
- am schmucksten superlative
- schmucke feminine nominative singular
- schmuckes neuter nominative singular
- schmucken genitive masculine singular
- schmuckem dative masculine singular
- der schmucke definite includes-article masculine
- die schmucke definite feminine includes-article
- das schmucke definite includes-article neuter
- die schmucken definite includes-article nominative
- des schmucken definite genitive includes-article
- der schmucken definite feminine genitive
- dem schmucken dative definite includes-article
- Schmucke nominative plural
- Schmuckes genitive singular
- Schmucks genitive singular
- Schmucken dative plural
- am schmuckesten superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schmuck
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schmuck in German?
schmuck appears 16 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).