schwer
/ʃwɜː(ɹ)/noun
schwer is a noun meaning “Alternative form of schwar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-H-W-E-R and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of schwer is schwers.
What does schwer mean?
noun
- 1
rareAlternative form of schwar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce schwer?
- /ʃwɜː(ɹ)/
Schwer has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-schwer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of schwer
- schwers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is schwer?
Schwer appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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 schwer come from?
From schwa + -er. Alteration of vowel in the word schwa to more closely approximate the sound described.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).