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Erdboden

German, noun

Erdboden is spelled E-R-D-B-O-D-E-N (8 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written German, the 18,843rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Erdboden is a German masculine noun meaning “ground” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Erdböden is a different word: “plural of Erdboden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “der feste aus Erde bestehende Grund, auf dem man steht, die Erdoberfläche”.

What does Erdboden mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineground

noun

as Erdböden
  1. 1

    masculineplural of Erdboden

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. der feste aus Erde bestehende Grund, auf dem man steht, die Erdoberfläche 2. die natürliche Bodenschicht, der Ackerboden

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 Erdboden

  • Erdbodens genitive
  • Erdböden plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Erdboden

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Erdboden in German?

Erdboden appears 2.8 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).

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