Karteikasten
German, noun
Karteikasten is spelled K-A-R-T-E-I-K-A-S-T-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written German, the 330,389th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Karteikasten is a German masculine noun meaning “card catalog box” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Karteikästen is a different word: “plural of Karteikasten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Behältnis zur Aufbewahrung von Karteikarten”.
What does Karteikasten mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecard catalog box
noun
- 1
plural of Karteikasten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Behältnis zur Aufbewahrung von Karteikarten
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 Karteikasten
- Karteikastens genitive
- Karteikästen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Karteikasten in German?
Karteikasten appears about once in every 32 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).