Keim
German, noun
Keim is spelled K-E-I-M (4 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written German, the 19,169th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Keim is a German masculine noun meaning “germ” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, keim is a different word: “singular imperative of keimen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Anfang, Beginn, erstes Anzeichen”.
What does Keim mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegerm
- 2
masculineseed
- 3
masculinesprout
verb
- 1
singular imperative of keimen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of keimen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Anfang, Beginn, erstes Anzeichen 2. das erste Entwicklungsstadium eines sich neu bildenden Lebens 3. erster Trieb einer Pflanze 4. befruchtete Eizelle, Embryo
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 Keim
- Keimes genitive
- Keims genitive
- Keime plural
- Keimen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Keim
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Keim in German?
Keim appears 2.8 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).