Klemme
German, noun
Klemme is spelled K-L-E-M-M-E (6 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written German, the 30,977th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Klemme is a German feminine noun meaning “clamp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, klemme is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Werkzeug oder Vorrichtung um etwas zu klemmen, anzuklemmen, festzuklemmen, zuzuklemmen”.
What does Klemme mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineclamp
- 2
femininegrip
- 3
colloquialfemininedifficult situation, predicament
aus der Klemme helfen
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. Werkzeug oder Vorrichtung um etwas zu klemmen, anzuklemmen, festzuklemmen, zuzuklemmen 2. schwierige Situation
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 Klemme
- Klemmen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Klemme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Klemme in German?
Klemme appears 1.4 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).