defekt
German, adjective
defekt is spelled D-E-F-E-K-T (6 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written German, the 8,847th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Defekt is a German adjective meaning “broken, out of order” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Defekt is a different word: “defect”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht mehr die gewöhnte/vorbestimmte Funktion erfüllen könnend”.
What does defekt mean in English?
adjective
- 1
broken, out of order
noun
- 1
masculinedefect
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fehlerhafte Stelle, Funktionsfehler
adjective: 1. nicht mehr die gewöhnte/vorbestimmte Funktion erfüllen könnend
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 defekt
- Defekts genitive
- Defekte plural
- Defekten dative definite plural
- defekter masculine nominative singular
- am defektesten superlative
- defekte feminine nominative singular
- defektes neuter nominative singular
- defekten genitive masculine singular
- defektem dative masculine singular
- der defekte definite includes-article masculine
- die defekte definite feminine includes-article
- das defekte definite includes-article neuter
- die defekten definite includes-article nominative
- Defect obsolete
- Defektes genitive singular
- def. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to defekt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is defekt in German?
defekt appears 7.6 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).