Ralle
German, noun
Ralle is spelled R-A-L-L-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 69,095th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ralle is a German feminine noun meaning “rail, crake (bird)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, ralle is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vertreter der Vogelfamilie Rallidae aus der Ordnung der Kranichvögel”.
What does Ralle mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerail, crake (bird)
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. Vertreter der Vogelfamilie Rallidae aus der Ordnung der Kranichvögel
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 Ralle
- Rallen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Ralle in German?
Ralle appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).