Schwachmat
German, noun/ʃvaxˈmaːt/
Schwachmat is spelled S-C-H-W-A-C-H-M-A-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 200,239th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schwachmat is a German masculine noun meaning “moron, idiot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “feiger, verschüchterter, unfähiger oder dummer Mensch”.
What does Schwachmat mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialderogatorymasculinemoron, idiot
- 2
colloquialdatedderogatorymasculineweakling, chicken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. feiger, verschüchterter, unfähiger oder dummer 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 Schwachmat
- Schwachmaten genitive
- Schwachmatiker alternative
- Schwachmatikus alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Schwachmat?
- /ʃvaxˈmaːt/
- [ʃvaxˈmaːt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Schwachmat in German?
Schwachmat appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).