Filter
German, noun
Filter is spelled F-I-L-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written German, the 5,929th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Filter is a German masculine noun meaning “filter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, filter is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Material zur Trennung oder Aussonderung bestimmter Substanzen”.
What does Filter mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineneuterfilter
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Material zur Trennung oder Aussonderung bestimmter Substanzen 2. Vorrichtung, Gerät oder Baugruppe zur Trennung oder Aussonderung bestimmter Medien oder Feststoffe 3. Software zur Trennung oder Aussonderung von Dateien oder Informationen 4. Vorrichtung vor dem Objektiv zur Veränderung des Bildes
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 Filter
- Filters genitive
- Filtern dative definite plural
- feltrum alternative
- filtrus alternative
- filtra alternative
- feltra alternative
- pheltrum alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Filter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Filter in German?
Filter appears 12 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).