heil
German, adjective
heil is spelled H-E-I-L (4 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written German, the 4,201st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Heil is a German adjective meaning “whole; intact; unhurt; safe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Heil is a different word: “health, salvation, well-being, happiness, a state of intactness and…”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht zerbrochen; unversehrt; nicht verletzt”.
What does heil mean in English?
adjective
- 1
whole; intact; unhurt; safe
Gut, dass du heil wieder zurück bist.
- 2
sheltered; innocent; ideal
heile Kindheit
noun
- 1
neuterhealth, salvation, well-being, happiness, a state of intactness and prosperity
- 2
neutersalvation, wellbeing in the afterlife
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. nicht zerbrochen; unversehrt; nicht verletzt
noun: 1. meist persönliches Wohlergehen, Glück, Gesundheit, Genesung 2. Erlösung, besonders auch Erlösung von begangenen Sünden
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 heil
- heiler masculine nominative singular
- am heilsten superlative
- heile feminine nominative singular
- heiles neuter nominative singular
- heilen genitive masculine singular
- heilem dative masculine singular
- der heile definite includes-article masculine
- die heile definite feminine includes-article
- das heile definite includes-article neuter
- die heilen definite includes-article nominative
- des heilen definite genitive includes-article
- der heilen definite feminine genitive
- dem heilen dative definite includes-article
- Heils genitive singular
- Heiles genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to heil
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is heil in German?
heil appears 19 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).