Fax
German, noun
Fax is spelled F-A-X (3 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written German, the 12,686th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fax is a German masculine noun meaning “fax (document received and printed by a fax machine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, fax is a different word: “singular imperative of faxen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “per Telefonleitung übermitteltes Dokument, Schriftstück, Foto oder Zeichnung”.
What does Fax mean in English?
noun
- 1
Switzerlandmasculineneuterfax (document received and printed by a fax machine)
- 2
Switzerlandmasculineneuterfax machine
verb
- 1
singular imperative of faxen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. per Telefonleitung übermitteltes Dokument, Schriftstück, Foto oder Zeichnung 2. Faxgerät
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 Fax
- Faxes genitive
- Faxe plural
- Faxen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Fax
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Fax in German?
Fax appears 4.8 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).