Gender
German, noun
Gender is spelled G-E-N-D-E-R (6 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written German, the 10,058th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gender is a German neuter noun meaning “gender, especially as a social category” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, gender is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Geschlecht, oft das postulierte soziale Geschlecht, um von den biologischen Geschlechtern zu unterscheiden”.
What does Gender mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutergender, especially as a social category
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. das Geschlecht, oft das postulierte soziale Geschlecht, um von den biologischen Geschlechtern zu unterscheiden
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 Gender
- Genders genitive
- Gendern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Gender
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Gender in German?
Gender appears 6.5 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).