Kälte
German, noun
Kälte is spelled K-Ä-L-T-E (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,473rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kälte is a German feminine noun meaning “coldness; cold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, kalte is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “niedrige Temperatur”.
What does Kälte mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecoldness; cold
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. niedrige Temperatur 2. Unfreundlichkeit, Gefühlskälte
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 Kälte
- K. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Kälte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Kälte in German?
Kälte appears 13 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).