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Urschrei

German, noun

Urschrei is spelled U-R-S-C-H-R-E-I (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written German, the 232,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Urschrei is a German masculine noun meaning “primal scream” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does Urschrei mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineprimal scream

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of Urschrei

  • Urschreies genitive
  • Urschreis genitive
  • Urschreie plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is Urschrei in German?

Urschrei appears about once in every 17 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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