Quitte
German, noun
Quitte is spelled Q-U-I-T-T-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 76,606th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quitte is a German feminine noun meaning “quince (fruit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, quitte is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Strauch oder Obstbaum , dessen Blüten rötlich weiß blühen und dessen grünlich gelben bis hellgelben, sehr…”.
What does Quitte mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininequince (fruit)
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. Strauch oder Obstbaum , dessen Blüten rötlich weiß blühen und dessen grünlich gelben bis hellgelben, sehr harten Früchte, – die in der äußeren Gestalt, je nach Sorte, mit Äpfeln oder Birnen vergleichbar sind –, ein charakteristisches Aroma besitzen 2. Frucht von dem unter [1] beschriebenen Strauch oder Obstbaum
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 Quitte
- Quitten plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Quitte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Quitte in German?
Quitte appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).