Lehm
German, noun/leːm/
Lehm is spelled L-E-H-M (4 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written German, the 19,537th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lehm is a German masculine noun meaning “loam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “quarzhaltiger, kalkfreier Ton, der reich an Eisenverbindungen ist; gutes Ausgangsmaterial für Keramik und…”.
What does Lehm mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineloam
- 2
masculineclay
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. quarzhaltiger, kalkfreier Ton, der reich an Eisenverbindungen ist; gutes Ausgangsmaterial für Keramik und Ziegel
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 Lehm
- Lehmes genitive
- Lehms genitive
- Lehme plural
- Lehmen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Lehm?
- /leːm/
- [leːm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Lehm
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Lehm in German?
Lehm appears 2.7 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).