Schreck
German, noun
Schreck is spelled S-C-H-R-E-C-K (7 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written German, the 12,686th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schreck is a German masculine noun meaning “fright” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schreck is a different word: “singular imperative of schrecken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “heftige Emotion, die durch die Wahrnehmung von etwas Unerwartetem oder Bedrohlichem ausgelöst wird”.
What does Schreck mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefright
verb
- 1
singular imperative of schrecken
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of schrecken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. heftige Emotion, die durch die Wahrnehmung von etwas Unerwartetem oder Bedrohlichem ausgelöst wird
suffix: 1. kennzeichnet in Verbindung mit Substantiven eine Person, die jemanden in Schrecken versetzt 2. kennzeichnet in Verbindung mit Substantiven eine Sache, die eine Gefahr darstellt
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 Schreck
- Schreckes genitive
- Schrecks genitive
- Schrecke plural
- Schrecken dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schreck
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schreck in German?
Schreck appears 4.8 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).