Glätte
German, noun
Glätte is spelled G-L-Ä-T-T-E (6 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written German, the 13,339th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glätte is a German feminine noun meaning “smoothness, sleekness, slipperiness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, glätte is a different word: “first-person singular present”. On this page, glatte is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ebenmäßige Beschaffenheit, das Nichtvorhandensein von Unebenheiten”.
What does Glätte mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesmoothness, sleekness, slipperiness
- 2
feminineicy conditions, ice or hardened snow on roads etc.
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ebenmäßige Beschaffenheit, das Nichtvorhandensein von Unebenheiten 2. übermäßig höfliches, heuchlerisches Auftreten
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Glätte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Glätte in German?
Glätte appears 4.5 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).