Pflaster
German, noun
Pflaster is spelled P-F-L-A-S-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written German, the 11,404th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pflaster is a German neuter noun meaning “pavement, cobbles (covering of paths or roadways made of blocks of stone or similar material)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, pflaster is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus vielen einzelnen Steinen bestehender Straßenbelag; Gegend, Gebiet”.
What does Pflaster mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicneuterplaster, cement, mortar, a mixture of gypsum, sand and chalk applied to floors
- 2
neuterpavement, cobbles (covering of paths or roadways made of blocks of stone or similar material)
- 3
neuterclipping of Heftpflaster (“band-aid, sticking plaster”)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aus vielen einzelnen Steinen bestehender Straßenbelag; Gegend, Gebiet
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 Pflaster
- Pflasters genitive
- Pflastern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Pflaster
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Pflaster in German?
Pflaster appears 5.5 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).