Rat
German, noun
Rat is spelled R-A-T (3 letters) and appears 55 times per million words in written German, the 1,550th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rat is a German masculine noun meaning “advice, counsel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, rät is a different word: “third-person singular present of raten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Empfehlung, sich in einer bestimmten Weise zu verhalten”.
What does Rat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineadvice, counsel
- 2
masculinecouncil
- 3
masculinecouncilor, councillor
- 4
masculinetitle of a Beamter ("Public servant") at the beginning of the senior service
- 5
Austriamasculinetitle of a Beamter ("Public servant") in the senior service after first promotion
verb
- 1
third-person singular present of raten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Empfehlung, sich in einer bestimmten Weise zu verhalten 2. beratendes Gremium 3. Mitglied eines Gremiums; Amtsbezeichnung für ein solches 4. Amtsbezeichnung im öffentlichen Dienst; Eingangsamt im höheren Dienst der Bundesrepublik
noun: 1. Erdzeitalter; jüngste geologische Stufe der Obertrias
abbreviation: 1. ratifizieren; ratifiziert 2. rational 3. rationalisieren; rationalisiert 4. rationell
abbreviation: 1. Ratifikation; Ratifizierung 2. Ration 3. Rationalisierung 4. Rationierung
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 Rat
- Rates genitive
- Rats genitive
- Räte plural
- Rate dative singular
- Räten dative definite plural
- Raht alternative obsolete
- Rath alternative
- Rätin feminine
- Rhät alternative
- Räts genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Rat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Rat in German?
Rat appears 55 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).