Schweifstern
German, noun/ˈʃvaɪ̯fˌʃtɛʁn/
Schweifstern is spelled S-C-H-W-E-I-F-S-T-E-R-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written German, the 434,655th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schweifstern is a German masculine noun meaning “comet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “kleiner Himmelskörper, der sich auf einer stark elliptischen Bahn um die Sonne bewegt und zumindest in den…”.
What does Schweifstern mean in English?
noun
- 1
datedmasculinecomet
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. kleiner Himmelskörper, der sich auf einer stark elliptischen Bahn um die Sonne bewegt und zumindest in den sonnennahen Teilen seiner Bahn eine durch Ausgasen erzeugte Koma aufweist
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 Schweifstern
- Schweifsternes genitive
- Schweifsterns genitive
- Schweifsterne plural
- Schweifsternchen diminutive neuter
- Schweifsternlein diminutive neuter
- Schweifsternen dative definite plural
- [1] ☄ symbol
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Schweifstern?
- /ˈʃvaɪ̯fˌʃtɛʁn/
- [ˈʃvaɪ̯fˌʃtɛʁn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Schweifstern in German?
Schweifstern appears about once in every 51 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).