Kappe
German, noun
Kappe is spelled K-A-P-P-E (5 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written German, the 16,394th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kappe is a German feminine noun meaning “cap, hood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, kappe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “dicht den Kopf umschließende Kopfbedeckung”.
What does Kappe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecap, hood
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. dicht den Kopf umschließende Kopfbedeckung 2. technische Vorrichtung zur Abdeckung oder zum Verschluss von etwas 3. tragender Teil eines Fallschirms 4. feste, aus Kernen, Schalen und Stängeln bestehende Schicht, die während der Gärung an die Oberfläche des Mosts aufsteigt
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 Kappe
- Kappen plural
- Käppchen diminutive neuter
- Käppelein diminutive neuter
- Käpplein diminutive neuter
- Kapperl diminutive neuter
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Kappe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Kappe in German?
Kappe appears 3.4 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).