Hecke
German, noun
Hecke is spelled H-E-C-K-E (5 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written German, the 21,930th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hecke is a German feminine noun meaning “hedge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, hecke is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Aufwuchs dicht beieinander stehender und stark verzweigter Sträucher oder Büsche”.
What does Hecke mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehedge
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Aufwuchs dicht beieinander stehender und stark verzweigter Sträucher oder Büsche 2. angepflanzte und gepflegte Umzäunung aus lebenden Pflanzen 3. Falle zum Fangen von Wild (oft von Wilddieben verwendet)
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 Hecke
- Hecken plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Hecke
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Hecke in German?
Hecke appears 2.3 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).