Haut
German, noun
Haut is spelled H-A-U-T (4 letters) and appears 62 times per million words in written German, the 1,391st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Haut is a German feminine noun meaning “skin, hide of a person, animal or (part of a) plant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, haut is a different word: “second-person plural present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “größtes Sinnesorgan bei Menschen und Tieren, das gleichzeitig als Schutz des darunterliegenden Gewebes…”.
What does Haut mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineskin, hide of a person, animal or (part of a) plant
- 2
femininea creature, especially a person
brave Haut
- 3
feminineskin (membrane found on the surface of an object, like a sausage)
verb
- 1
second-person plural present
- 2
third-person singular present
- 3
plural imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. größtes Sinnesorgan bei Menschen und Tieren, das gleichzeitig als Schutz des darunterliegenden Gewebes, Atmung, Wärmeregulierung und anderem dient 2. Rohmaterial für Leder 3. der Haut^([1]) ähnelnde Schicht bei Lebensmitteln und Flüssigkeiten 4. äußere Schicht zum Schutz oder zur optischen Verbesserung
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 Haut
- Häute plural
- Häutchen diminutive neuter
- Häutlein diminutive neuter
- Häuten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Haut
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Haut in German?
Haut appears 62 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).