Dichter
German, noun
Dichter is spelled D-I-C-H-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written German, the 3,577th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dichter is a German masculine noun meaning “poet (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, dichter is a different word: “comparative degree of dicht”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Verfasser eines sprachlich kunstvollen Werkes”.
What does Dichter mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepoet (male or of unspecified gender)
Shakespeare war ein berühmter Dichter.
adjective
- 1
comparative degree of dicht
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Verfasser eines sprachlich kunstvollen Werkes
abbreviation: 1. dichterisch
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 Dichter
- Dichters genitive
- Dichterin feminine
- Dichtern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Dichter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Dichter in German?
Dichter appears 22 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).