Schwippschwager
German, noun
Schwippschwager is spelled S-C-H-W-I-P-P-S-C-H-W-A-G-E-R (15 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 214,094th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schwippschwager is a German masculine noun meaning “the husband of someone's spouse's sister; (hence in the plural) those married to a group of siblings in relation to each other” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Schwippschwäger is a different word: “plural of Schwippschwager”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Bruder eines Ehepartners von einem eigenen Geschwister”.
What does Schwippschwager mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethe husband of someone's spouse's sister; (hence in the plural) those married to a group of siblings in relation to each other
- 2
masculinethe brother of someone's sibling's spouse; (hence in the plural) the siblings of a married couple in relation to each other
noun
- 1
plural of Schwippschwager
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bruder eines Ehepartners von einem eigenen Geschwister 2. Ehemann eines Geschwisters des eigenen Ehepartners
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 Schwippschwager
- Schwippschwagers genitive
- Schwippschwäger plural
- Schwippschwägerin feminine
- Schwippschwägern dative definite plural
- Schwippschwagern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Schwippschwager in German?
Schwippschwager appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).