Pfeife
German, noun
Pfeife is spelled P-F-E-I-F-E (6 letters) and appears 4.0 times per million words in written German, the 14,528th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pfeife is a German feminine noun meaning “whistle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, pfeife is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gerät zum Erzeugen von Tönen, bei dem Luft in der Regel über eine Kante geblasen wird”.
What does Pfeife mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewhistle
- 2
femininepipe (for smoking)
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. Gerät zum Erzeugen von Tönen, bei dem Luft in der Regel über eine Kante geblasen wird 2. die Hupe von Schiffen und Lokomotiven 3. Pikkoloflöte 4. Gerät zum Rauchen
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 Pfeife
- Pfeifen plural
- Pfeifchen diminutive neuter
- Pfeiflein diminutive neuter
- Pfeiferl diminutive neuter
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Pfeife
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Pfeife in German?
Pfeife appears 4.0 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).