oval
German, adjective
oval is spelled O-V-A-L (4 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written German, the 19,169th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Oval is a German adjective meaning “oval” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Oval is a different word: “oval”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eirund, von runder und länglicher, allerdings nicht kreisförmiger Form, ähnlich wie eine Ellipse”.
What does oval mean in English?
adjective
- 1
oval
noun
- 1
neuteroval
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. eirund, von runder und länglicher, allerdings nicht kreisförmiger Form, ähnlich wie eine Ellipse
noun: 1. ovale Form oder ovale Fläche
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 oval
- ovaler masculine nominative singular
- am ovalsten superlative
- Ovals genitive
- Ovale plural
- ovale positive nominative strong
- ovales positive nominative strong
- ovalen positive genitive strong
- ovalem positive dative strong
- Ovalen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to oval
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is oval in German?
oval appears 2.8 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).