Biofilm
German, noun
Biofilm is spelled B-I-O-F-I-L-M (7 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 208,435th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Biofilm is a German masculine noun meaning “biofilm (a thin film of mucus created by and containing a colony of bacteria and other microorganisms)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Biofilm mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebiofilm (a thin film of mucus created by and containing a colony of bacteria and other microorganisms)
Viele Mundbakterien lassen sich im Labor nicht in Reinkultur züchten. Das liegt daran, dass sie sich als Teil eines artenübergreifenden Biofilms entwickelt haben und auf die Interaktion mit anderen Mitgliedern der Gemeinschaft angewiesen si
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Biofilm
- Biofilms genitive
- Biofilme plural
- Biofilmen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Biofilm
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Biofilm in German?
Biofilm appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).