Asche
German, noun
Asche is spelled A-S-C-H-E (5 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written German, the 7,028th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Asche is a German feminine noun meaning “ash; ashes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Äsche is a different word: “grayling (Thymallus thymallus)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Verbrennungsrückstand”.
What does Asche mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineash; ashes
- 2
colloquialfemininemoney
noun
- 1
femininegrayling (Thymallus thymallus)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Verbrennungsrückstand 2. feinkörniger Auswurf von Vulkanen 3. Geld 4. Nationale Volksarmee
noun: 1. Fisch aus der Gattung Thymallus
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 Asche
- Aschen plural
- Äschen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Asche
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Asche in German?
Asche appears 10 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).