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Impakt

German, noun[ɪmˈpakt]

Impakt is spelled I-M-P-A-K-T (6 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written German, the 271,406th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impakt is a German masculine noun meaning “impact of an asteroid, meteorite or alike into the earth's surface” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Auftreffen/Eindringen eines Asteroiden, Meteoriten oder Ähnliches auf/in die Erdoberfläche”.

What does Impakt mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineimpact of an asteroid, meteorite or alike into the earth's surface.

  2. 2

    masculineimpact of the climate and climate change on the biosphere and anthroposphere

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Auftreffen/Eindringen eines Asteroiden, Meteoriten oder Ähnliches auf/in die Erdoberfläche 2. „Einwirkung des Klimas und seiner Variationen auf die Biosphäre und Anthroposphäre einschließlich ökonomischer und sozialer Folgen“

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 Impakt

  • Impaktes genitive
  • Impakts genitive
  • Impakte plural
  • Impakten dative definite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Impakt?

  • [ɪmˈpakt]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is Impakt in German?

Impakt appears about once in every 22 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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