Leere
German, noun
Leere is spelled L-E-E-R-E (5 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,267th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Leere is a German feminine noun meaning “emptiness, void” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, leere is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Zustand einer Gegend/eines Raumes, nichts zu enthalten”.
What does Leere mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineemptiness, void
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
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. Zustand einer Gegend/eines Raumes, nichts zu enthalten 2. Gefühl einer Person, nichts zu haben, das sie erfüllt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Leere
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Leere in German?
Leere appears 18 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).