Kiel
German, noun/kiːl/
Kiel is spelled K-I-E-L (4 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written German, the 3,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kiel is a German masculine noun meaning “keel (beam at the underside of a ship)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “unterster Längsbalken entlang der Mittellinie eines Schiffes; auch flossenähnlicher Aufbau an der Unterseite…”.
What does Kiel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinekeel (beam at the underside of a ship)
noun
- 1
masculinequill (shaft of a feather)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. unterster Längsbalken entlang der Mittellinie eines Schiffes; auch flossenähnlicher Aufbau an der Unterseite von Wasserfahrzeugen
noun: 1. mittlerer, harter Teil einer Feder
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 Kiel
- Kieles genitive
- Kiels genitive
- Kiele plural
- Kielen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kiel?
- /kiːl/
- [kiːl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Kiel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Kiel in German?
Kiel appears 23 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).