From Middle High German schrecke, from Old High German screcko, formed from the noun screckōn (“to jump around, surge, flash out, rebound”), from where is also derived schrecken (“to frighten”), which see for further.

Compare Dutch schrik.

• IPA^(key): /ʃʁɛk/

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Schreck m (strong, genitive Schreckes or Schrecks, plural Schrecke)

1. fright

   Synonym: Schrecken

• Schrecksekunde

• schrecken, erschrecken
• schrecklich
• schreckhaft

• Furcht
• Angst

• “Schreck” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Schreck” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Schreck” in Duden online
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From Middle High German schrecke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃrek/
• Rhymes: -ek
• Syllabification: Schreck

Schreck m (plural Schreck)

1. fright

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Schreck”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch