Folter
German, noun
Folter is spelled F-O-L-T-E-R (6 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written German, the 8,348th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Folter is a German feminine noun meaning “torture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, folter is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Misshandlung oder das Zufügen von körperlichen und seelischen Schmerzen”.
What does Folter mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetorture
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. die Misshandlung oder das Zufügen von körperlichen und seelischen Schmerzen 2. langes Warten, Qual, Pein
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 Folter
- Foltern plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Folter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Folter in German?
Folter appears 8.1 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).