gilten
German, verb
gilten is spelled G-I-L-T-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written German, the 317,631st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gilten is a German verb meaning “to count; to be valid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does gilten mean in English?
verb
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Austriacolloquialto count; to be valid
Das giltet nicht! Ich war noch gar nicht fertig!
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of gilten
- giltet present singular third-person
- giltete past
- gegiltet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- giltend participle present
- gilte first-person indicative present
- giltest indicative present second-person
- gilteten first-person indicative plural
- giltetest indicative preterite second-person
- giltetet indicative plural preterite
- gilt imperative second-person singular
- habe gegiltet first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gegiltet first-person indicative multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is gilten in German?
gilten appears about once in every 30 million words in written German.
gilten0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Germanmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).