glatt
German, adjective[ɡlat]
glatt is spelled G-L-A-T-T (5 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written German, the 4,427th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glatt is a German adjective meaning “without roughness or unevenness: smooth; sleek, slick; even; clean (of a shave or cut); straight (of hair)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ohne Rauigkeiten und Unebenheiten”.
What does glatt mean in English?
adjective
- 1
without roughness or unevenness: smooth; sleek, slick; even; clean (of a shave or cut); straight (of hair)
ein glatter Bruch
- 2
slippery (from e.g. ice, but not from grease)
- 3
smooth (without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents)
alles läuft glatt
- 4
informalclear, unequivocal
ein glatter Sieg
- 5
smooth (being infinitely differentiable)
- 6
smooth (having bounded prime factors)
- 7
smoothbore
- 8
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Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. ohne Rauigkeiten und Unebenheiten 2. rutschig (aber nicht schmierig), zum Beispiel durch Eis 3. keine Schwierigkeiten habend; mühelos 4. lustig, fidel, humorvoll
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 glatt
- glatter masculine nominative singular
- am glattesten superlative
- glatte feminine nominative singular
- glattes neuter nominative singular
- glatten genitive masculine singular
- glattem dative masculine singular
- der glatte definite includes-article masculine
- die glatte definite feminine includes-article
- das glatte definite includes-article neuter
- die glatten definite includes-article nominative
- des glatten definite genitive includes-article
- der glatten definite feminine genitive
- dem glatten dative definite includes-article
- glätter comparative
- am glättesten superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glatt?
- [ɡlat]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glatt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glatt in German?
glatt appears 17 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).