Muffe
German, noun
Muffe is spelled M-U-F-F-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 107,140th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Muffe is a German feminine noun meaning “pipe-connecting sleeve, clutch, muff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Muff. In lower case, muffe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “kurzes rohrförmiges Verbindungsstück zum Verbinden von Rohren, Kanälen oder elektrischen Leitungen”.
What does Muffe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepipe-connecting sleeve, clutch, muff
- 2
colloquialfeminineheebie-jeebies, fear
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Muff
- 2
archaicdative singular of Muff
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. kurzes rohrförmiges Verbindungsstück zum Verbinden von Rohren, Kanälen oder elektrischen Leitungen 2. Angst
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 Muffe
- Muffen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Muffe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Muffe in German?
Muffe appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).