Locher
German, noun
Locher is spelled L-O-C-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,412th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Locher is a German masculine noun meaning “hole punch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Löcher is a different word: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Loch”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gerät, mit dem Löcher mit festem Abstand in Papier gestanzt werden”.
What does Locher mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehole punch
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Loch
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gerät, mit dem Löcher mit festem Abstand in Papier gestanzt werden
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 Locher
- Lochers genitive
- Lochern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Locher in German?
Locher appears 11 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).