Beichte
German, noun
Beichte is spelled B-E-I-C-H-T-E (7 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written German, the 22,305th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beichte is a German feminine noun meaning “confession (sacramental disclosure of one's sins)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, beichte is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Sündenbekenntnis (und anschließende Sündenvergebung)”.
What does Beichte mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineconfession (sacramental disclosure of one's sins)
Ich bin nur einmal im Leben zur Beichte gegangen.
- 2
feminineconfession (disclosure of one's bad deeds)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
- 3
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sündenbekenntnis (und anschließende Sündenvergebung) 2. Schuldbekenntnis
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 Beichte
- Beichten plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Beichte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Beichte in German?
Beichte appears 2.2 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).