windschief
German, adjective/ˈvɪntʃiːf/
windschief is spelled W-I-N-D-S-C-H-I-E-F (10 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written German, the 257,657th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Windschief is a German adjective meaning “skew (neither perpendicular nor parallel)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht parallel und keinen gemeinsamen Schnittpunkt habend”.
What does windschief mean in English?
adjective
- 1
skew (neither perpendicular nor parallel)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. nicht parallel und keinen gemeinsamen Schnittpunkt habend 2. verzogen (insbesondere durch Verwinden), schief, schräg, bis hin zu baufällig
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 windschief
- windschiefer masculine nominative singular
- am windschiefsten superlative
- windschiefe feminine nominative singular
- windschiefes neuter nominative singular
- windschiefen genitive masculine singular
- windschiefem dative masculine singular
- der windschiefe definite includes-article masculine
- die windschiefe definite feminine includes-article
- das windschiefe definite includes-article neuter
- die windschiefen definite includes-article nominative
- des windschiefen definite genitive includes-article
- der windschiefen definite feminine genitive
- dem windschiefen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce windschief?
- /ˈvɪntʃiːf/
- [ˈvɪntʃiːf]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to windschief
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is windschief in German?
windschief appears about once in every 20 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).