Cover
German, noun
Cover is spelled C-O-V-E-R (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,816th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cover is a German neuter noun meaning “cover version, cover song” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, cover is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Titelseite eines Printmediums”.
What does Cover mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutercover version, cover song
- 2
neutercover (front of a CD, DVD or magazine)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Titelseite eines Printmediums 2. Hülle von Büchern, Medien wie Schallplatten, CDs und Kassetten und technischen Geräten 3. Neufassung eines Liedes durch andere Interpreten als in der Ursprungsversion
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 Cover
- Covers genitive
- Covern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Cover in German?
Cover appears 13 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).