Halbton
German, noun[ˈhalpˌtoːn]
Halbton is spelled H-A-L-B-T-O-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 140,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Halbton is a German masculine noun meaning “semitone, half-step” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Intervallabstand einer kleinen Sekunde; kleinstes Intervall im zwölfstufigen Tonsystem”.
What does Halbton mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesemitone, half-step
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Intervallabstand einer kleinen Sekunde; kleinstes Intervall im zwölfstufigen Tonsystem
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 Halbton
- Halbtones genitive
- Halbtons genitive
- Halbtöne plural
- Halbtone dative singular
- Halbtönen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Halbton?
- [ˈhalpˌtoːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Halbton
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Halbton in German?
Halbton appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).