Planet
German, noun
Planet is spelled P-L-A-N-E-T (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,647th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Planet is a German masculine noun meaning “planet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, planet is a different word: “second-person plural subjunctive I of planen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht selbst leuchtender runder Himmelskörper, der sich um einen Stern bewegt und seine Umlaufbahn…”.
What does Planet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineplanet
Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unsere neun Planeten.
verb
- 1
second-person plural subjunctive I of planen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nicht selbst leuchtender runder Himmelskörper, der sich um einen Stern bewegt und seine Umlaufbahn freigeräumt hat
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 Planet
- Planeten genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Planet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Planet in German?
Planet appears 11 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).