Pfosten
German, noun
Pfosten is spelled P-F-O-S-T-E-N (7 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written German, the 7,736th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pfosten is a German masculine noun meaning “post; pillar (long, fairly thick piece of wood or metal used to stabilise something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Pfösten is a different word: “plural of Pfosten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “vertikales Konstruktionselement”.
What does Pfosten mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepost; pillar (long, fairly thick piece of wood or metal used to stabilise something)
- 2
masculinepost; pole; pale (such an object used for purposes other than stabilisation)
- 3
masculinegoalpost
- 4
masculinemullion
- 5
masculinepost
noun
- 1
rareplural of Pfosten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vertikales Konstruktionselement 2. Torpfosten 3. senkrechter Teil einer Fensterverstrebung oder eines Kreuzstockes, der mit dem waagerechten Kämpferholz das Fensterkreuz bildet 4. senkrechtes eingeschossiges Holz im Fachwerkbau im Gegensatz zu dem mehrgeschossigen senkrechten Ständer
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 Pfosten
- Pfostens genitive
- Pfösten plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Pfosten
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Pfosten in German?
Pfosten appears 8.9 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).