laut
German, preposition
laut is spelled L-A-U-T (4 letters) and appears 170 times per million words in written German, the 507th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Laut is a German preposition meaning “according to” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Laut is a different word: “any sound”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “besagter Quelle zufolge”.
What does laut mean in English?
adjective
- 1
loud, noisy
preposition
- 1
according to
noun
- 1
masculineany sound
- 2
masculinesound made by a person or animal
- 3
masculinesound of a language, phoneme
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein Geräusch 2. Laut [1] als Teil einer Sprache; Sprachlaut
adjective: 1. stark, intensiv; weit zu hören 2. mit Lärm erfüllt; voller störender Geräusche 3. schnell
preposition: 1. besagter Quelle zufolge
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 laut
- Lautes genitive
- Lauts genitive
- Laute plural
- Lauten dative definite plural
- lauter masculine nominative singular
- am lautesten superlative
- laute feminine nominative singular
- lautes neuter nominative singular
- lauten genitive masculine singular
- lautem dative masculine singular
- der laute definite includes-article masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to laut
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is laut in German?
laut appears 170 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).