Penne
German, noun
Penne is spelled P-E-N-N-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 55,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Penne is a German feminine noun meaning “school” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, penne is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “salopper bis oft leicht negativer Ausdruck für eine (höhere) Schule”.
What does Penne mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialdatedfeminineschool
noun
- 1
colloquialderogatoryfemininedosshouse, flophouse
- 2
colloquialderogatoryfeminineprostitute
noun
- 1
penne
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. salopper bis oft leicht negativer Ausdruck für eine (höhere) Schule 2. Notunterkunft für die Nacht 3. Prostituierte
noun: 1. röhrenförmige Nudeln aus Hartweizenmehl
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 Penne
- Pennen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Penne in German?
Penne appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).