Mare
German, noun
Mare is spelled M-A-R-E (4 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written German, the 24,663rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mare is a German neuter noun meaning “mare (such as the large black plains on the Moon)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Märe is a different word: “alternative form of Mär”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “dunkle Tiefebene des Mondes”.
What does Mare mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutermare (such as the large black plains on the Moon)
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of Mär
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dunkle Tiefebene des Mondes
noun: 1. Nebenfluss der Loire in Frankreich 2. Nebenfluss des Orb in Frankreich
noun: 1. seltsame Geschichte oder Erzählung 2. Bericht, der keine Glaubwürdigkeit besitzt; unwahre Erzählung
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 Mare
- Mares genitive
- Maria plural
- Maren dative definite plural
- Mären plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Mare in German?
Mare 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).