Pelle
German, noun
Pelle is spelled P-E-L-L-E (5 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written German, the 35,124th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pelle is a German feminine noun meaning “skin, peel (mostly in reference to sausages or vegetables, especially potatoes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, pelle is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Schale von Obst, Gemüse, Eiern, die Hülle der Wurst und Ähnlichem; die Haut von gebratenem Fleisch und Fisch…”.
What does Pelle mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineskin, peel (mostly in reference to sausages or vegetables, especially potatoes)
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. Schale von Obst, Gemüse, Eiern, die Hülle der Wurst und Ähnlichem; die Haut von gebratenem Fleisch und Fisch, menschliche oder tierische Haut, Oberbekleidung
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 Pelle
- Pellen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Pelle in German?
Pelle appears 1.2 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).