Renke
German, noun
Renke is spelled R-E-N-K-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 182,294th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Renke is a German feminine noun meaning “whitefish (any of several species of fish in the genus Coregonus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, renke is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Fisch aus der Gattung Coregonus”.
What does Renke mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewhitefish (any of several species of fish in the genus Coregonus)
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. Fisch aus der Gattung Coregonus
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 Renke
- Renken plural
- Rheinanke alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Renke in German?
Renke appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).