Lebensfaden
German, noun
Lebensfaden is spelled L-E-B-E-N-S-F-A-D-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written German, the 267,890th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lebensfaden is a German masculine noun meaning “thread of life” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Lebensfäden is a different word: “plural of Lebensfaden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Faden als Symbol für Verlauf oder auch Enden des Lebens”.
What does Lebensfaden mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethread of life
noun
- 1
plural of Lebensfaden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Faden als Symbol für Verlauf oder auch Enden des Lebens
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 Lebensfaden
- Lebensfadens genitive
- Lebensfäden plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Lebensfaden in German?
Lebensfaden appears about once in every 22 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).