dicht
German, adjective/dɪçt/
dicht is spelled D-I-C-H-T (5 letters) and appears 28 times per million words in written German, the 2,961st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dicht is a German adjective meaning “thick, tight, dense” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a singular imperative of dichten. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eng, nahe beieinanderliegend, undurchdringlich”.
What does dicht mean in English?
adjective
- 1
thick, tight, dense
- 2
impermeable, sealed, shut, locked (preventing passage or entrance)
- 3
closed, out of operation, out of business
dicht machen
- 4
close
- 5
colloquialtight, intoxicated
adverb
- 1
closely
verb
- 1
singular imperative of dichten
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of dichten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. eng, nahe beieinanderliegend, undurchdringlich 2. nahe bei 3. betrunken oder unter Drogeneinfluss stehend 4. vernünftig (nur als Negation)
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 dicht
- dichter masculine nominative singular
- am dichtesten superlative
- dichte feminine nominative singular
- dichtes neuter nominative singular
- dichten genitive masculine singular
- dichtem dative masculine singular
- der dichte definite includes-article masculine
- die dichte definite feminine includes-article
- das dichte definite includes-article neuter
- die dichten definite includes-article nominative
- des dichten definite genitive includes-article
- der dichten definite feminine genitive
- dem dichten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dicht?
- /dɪçt/
- [dɪçt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dicht
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dicht in German?
dicht appears 28 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).