Fallturm
German, noun[ˈfalˌtʊʁm]
Fallturm is spelled F-A-L-L-T-U-R-M (8 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written German, the 381,294th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fallturm is a German masculine noun meaning “drop tower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Turm, in dem Fallversuche durchgeführt werden. Der freie Fall der sogenannten Fallkapsel findet dabei in…”.
What does Fallturm mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedrop tower
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Turm, in dem Fallversuche durchgeführt werden. Der freie Fall der sogenannten Fallkapsel findet dabei in einer evakuierten Röhre im Inneren des Fallturms statt.
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 Fallturm
- Fallturmes genitive
- Fallturms genitive
- Falltürme plural
- Fallturme dative singular
- Falltürmen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Fallturm?
- [ˈfalˌtʊʁm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Fallturm in German?
Fallturm appears about once in every 41 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).