Schuft
German, noun
Schuft is spelled S-C-H-U-F-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 59,520th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schuft is a German masculine noun meaning “scoundrel, villain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schuft is a different word: “second-person plural preterite of schaffen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “gemeiner, niederträchtiger Mensch”.
What does Schuft mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinescoundrel, villain
verb
- 1
second-person plural preterite of schaffen
verb
- 1
second-person singular imperative of schuften
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. gemeiner, niederträchtiger Mensch
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 Schuft
- Schuftes genitive
- Schufts genitive
- Schufte plural
- Schuften dative definite plural
- Schuftin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schuft
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schuft in German?
Schuft appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).