Schund
German, noun
Schund is spelled S-C-H-U-N-D (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 39,859th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schund is a German masculine noun meaning “trash, rubbish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, schund is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of schinden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nutzloses Zeug, Ausschuss, minderwertige Ware”.
What does Schund mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetrash, rubbish
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of schinden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nutzloses Zeug, Ausschuss, minderwertige Ware
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 Schund
- Schundes genitive
- Schunds genitive
- Schunde dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Schund
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Schund in German?
Schund appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).