frachten
German, verb
frachten is spelled F-R-A-C-H-T-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 170,338th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frachten is a German verb meaning “to freight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Frachten is a different word: “plural of Fracht”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas irgendwohin transportieren, wie eine Fracht versenden/verschicken”.
What does frachten mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto freight
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Fracht
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas irgendwohin transportieren, wie eine Fracht versenden/verschicken
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 frachten
- frachtet present singular third-person
- frachtete past
- gefrachtet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- frachtend participle present
- frachte first-person indicative present
- frachtest indicative present second-person
- frachteten first-person indicative plural
- frachtetest indicative preterite second-person
- frachtetet indicative plural preterite
- fracht imperative second-person singular
- habe gefrachtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gefrachtet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- fracht! imperative singular
- frachte! imperative singular
- frachtet! imperative plural
- gefrachtet haben active infinitive perfect
- gefrachtet werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is frachten in German?
frachten appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).