Schoss
German, noun
Schoss is spelled S-C-H-O-S-S (6 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written German, the 4,979th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schoss is a German masculine noun meaning “Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Schoß” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schoss is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of schießen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “langer, gerader, meist junger Trieb einer Pflanze”.
What does Schoss mean in English?
noun
- 1
SwitzerlandmasculineSwitzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Schoß
noun
- 1
datedmasculineshoot of a plant
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of schießen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. langer, gerader, meist junger Trieb einer Pflanze
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 Schoss
- Schosses genitive
- Schösse plural
- Schosse dative singular
- Schössen dative definite plural
- Schossen dative definite plural
- Schoß obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schoss
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schoss in German?
Schoss appears 15 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).