Schnabel
German, noun
Schnabel is spelled S-C-H-N-A-B-E-L (8 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written German, the 13,580th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schnabel is a German masculine noun meaning “beak, bill, pecker” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Schnäbel is a different word: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Schnabel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Mundwerkzeug bestimmter Tiere”.
What does Schnabel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebeak, bill, pecker
- 2
derogatorymasculinemouth of a person
Halt den Schnabel!
- 3
masculinespout
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Schnabel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. das Mundwerkzeug bestimmter Tiere 2. der Mund 3. der spitz zulaufende Bug bei antiken Schiffen 4. die nach außen (als Röhre) verlängerte Ausbuchtung zum Ausgießen einer Kanne
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 Schnabel
- Schnabels genitive
- Schnäbel plural
- Schnäbelchen diminutive neuter
- Schnäblein diminutive neuter
- Schnaberl diminutive neuter
- Schnäbeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schnabel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schnabel in German?
Schnabel appears 4.4 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).