Linse
German, noun
Linse is spelled L-I-N-S-E (5 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written German, the 18,843rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Linse is a German feminine noun meaning “lens” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, linse is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vertreter der Gattung Lens aus der Familie der Schmetterlingsblütler, insbesondere Lens culinaris”.
What does Linse mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelens
- 2
femininelentil
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. Vertreter der Gattung Lens aus der Familie der Schmetterlingsblütler, insbesondere Lens culinaris 2. die essbaren Samen von Lens culinaris 3. transparenter Körper (zum Beispiel aus Glas) mit zwei gekrümmten nichtparallelen lichtbrechenden Flächen 4. das lichtbrechende Medium in den Augen von Menschen und anderen Tieren
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 Linse
- Linsen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Linse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Linse in German?
Linse appears 2.8 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).