Makel
German, noun
Makel is spelled M-A-K-E-L (5 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written German, the 25,090th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Makel is a German masculine noun meaning “flaw; blemish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, mäkel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Fehler, Mangel, Unreinheit oder Unvollkommenheit, die einen Gegenstand oder eine Person beeinträchtigen”.
What does Makel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineflaw; blemish
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fehler, Mangel, Unreinheit oder Unvollkommenheit, die einen Gegenstand oder eine Person beeinträchtigen
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 Makel
- Makels genitive
- Makeln dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Makel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Makel in German?
Makel appears 1.9 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).