Drohne
German, noun
Drohne is spelled D-R-O-H-N-E (6 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written German, the 13,123rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Drohne is a German feminine noun meaning “drone (male bee)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, dröhne is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “männliche Biene”.
What does Drohne mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedrone (male bee)
- 2
datedfemininesponger, parasite
- 3
femininedrone (unmanned aircraft)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. männliche Biene 2. Nichtstuer, Faulenzer, der andere für sich arbeiten lässt 3. unbemanntes Fahrzeug/Flugzeug/Fluggerät
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 Drohne
- Drohnen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Drohne
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Drohne in German?
Drohne appears 4.6 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).