Deckmantel
German, noun
Deckmantel is spelled D-E-C-K-M-A-N-T-E-L (10 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written German, the 29,051st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Deckmantel is a German masculine noun meaning “cloak, disguise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Deckmäntel is a different word: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Deckmantel”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “vorgeschobene, erfundene Begründung, warum jemand etwas tut/sagt, in Wirklichkeit aber die wahren, negativen…”.
What does Deckmantel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecloak, disguise
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Deckmantel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vorgeschobene, erfundene Begründung, warum jemand etwas tut/sagt, in Wirklichkeit aber die wahren, negativen Absichten verschweigt
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 Deckmantel
- Deckmantels genitive
- Deckmäntel plural
- Deckmänteln dative definite plural
- Deckmäntelchen diminutive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Deckmantel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Deckmantel in German?
Deckmantel appears 1.5 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).