Hechel
German, noun
Hechel is spelled H-E-C-H-E-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written German, the 241,486th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hechel is a German feminine noun meaning “hackle (comb for separating flax)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, hechel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vorrichtung, durch die man Flachs zieht, um die Fasern vom Werg zu trennen”.
What does Hechel mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehackle (comb for separating flax)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vorrichtung, durch die man Flachs zieht, um die Fasern vom Werg zu trennen
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 Hechel
- Hecheln plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Hechel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Hechel in German?
Hechel appears about once in every 18 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).