Blechkasten
German, noun
Blechkasten is spelled B-L-E-C-H-K-A-S-T-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written German, the 522,009th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blechkasten is a German masculine noun meaning “metal box” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Blechkästen is a different word: “plural of Blechkasten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mittelgroßer, rechteckiger Behälter mit Deckel aus Blech”.
What does Blechkasten mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemetal box
noun
- 1
plural of Blechkasten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mittelgroßer, rechteckiger Behälter mit Deckel aus Blech
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 Blechkasten
- Blechkastens genitive
- Blechkästen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Blechkasten in German?
Blechkasten appears about once in every 71 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).