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scheisse

noun, interjection

scheisse is a noun meaning “Euphemistic form of shit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-H-E-I-S-S-E, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does scheisse mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Euphemistic form of shit. (a form of shit)

interjection

  1. 1

    Euphemistic form of shit. (a form of shit)

noun

as Scheisse
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of scheisse.

interjection

as Scheisse
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of scheisse.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of scheisse

  • scheiss
  • scheiße
  • shize

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is scheisse?

Scheisse appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.

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

Where does scheisse come from?

Borrowed from German Scheiße. Doublet of shit.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).