German, noun
Mail is spelled M-A-I-L (4 letters) and appears 47 times per million words in written German, the 1,815th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mail is a German feminine noun meaning “alternative form of E-Mail (“e-mail”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, mail is a different word: “singular imperative of mailen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “E-Mail”.
What does Mail mean in English?
noun
- 1
AustriaSwitzerlandfeminineneuteralternative form of E-Mail (“e-mail”)
Die Bewerbungen können per Post oder Mail eingereicht werden.
verb
- 1
singular imperative of mailen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of mailen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. E-Mail
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 Mail
- Mails plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Mail
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Mail in German?
Mail appears 47 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).