Bindfaden
German, noun
Bindfaden is spelled B-I-N-D-F-A-D-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 144,446th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bindfaden is a German masculine noun meaning “thread, cord” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Bindfäden is a different word: “plural of Bindfaden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine aus Hanf oder Flachs gedrehte, feste, dünne Schnur”.
What does Bindfaden mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethread, cord
noun
- 1
plural of Bindfaden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine aus Hanf oder Flachs gedrehte, feste, dünne Schnur
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 Bindfaden
- Bindfadens genitive
- Bindfäden plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Bindfaden in German?
Bindfaden appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).