Asteroid
German, noun[asteʁoˈiːt]
Asteroid is spelled A-S-T-E-R-O-I-D (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 42,412th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Asteroid is a German masculine noun meaning “asteroid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “kleines, planetenähnliches Objekt, welches sich auf einer Keplerschen Umlaufbahn um die Sonne bewegt”.
What does Asteroid mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineasteroid
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. kleines, planetenähnliches Objekt, welches sich auf einer Keplerschen Umlaufbahn um die Sonne bewegt
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 Asteroid
- Asteroiden genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Asteroid?
- [asteʁoˈiːt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Asteroid
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Asteroid in German?
Asteroid appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).