Skyr
German, noun[skiːɐ̯]
Skyr is spelled S-K-Y-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 159,136th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Skyr is a German masculine noun meaning “skyr” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Magerquark, welcher aus entrahmter, pasteurisierter Milch gewonnen wird, in der durch spezielle…”.
What does Skyr mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineskyr
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Magerquark, welcher aus entrahmter, pasteurisierter Milch gewonnen wird, in der durch spezielle Milchsäurebakterien eine Teilgärung hervorgerufen wurde
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 Skyr
- Skyrs genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Skyr?
- [skiːɐ̯]
- [skiːʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Skyr
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Skyr in German?
Skyr appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).