Acker
German, noun
Acker is spelled A-C-K-E-R (5 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written German, the 11,022nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acker is a German masculine noun meaning “field (wide, open space used to grow crops)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, acker is a different word: “first-person singular present”. With an umlaut, Äcker is a different word: “plural of Acker”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “landwirtschaftlich genutzte Fläche, die regelmäßig bearbeitet wird”.
What does Acker mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefield (wide, open space used to grow crops)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
noun
- 1
masculineplural of Acker
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. landwirtschaftlich genutzte Fläche, die regelmäßig bearbeitet wird 2. altes Flächenmaß für landwirtschaftliche Flächen
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 Acker
- Ackers genitive
- Äcker plural
- Äckerchen diminutive neuter
- Äckerlein diminutive neuter
- Äckern dative definite plural
- Aker alternative obsolete
- Ackern dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Acker
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Acker in German?
Acker appears 5.8 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).