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rot

German, adjective

rot is spelled R-O-T (3 letters) and appears 85 times per million words in written German, the 1,019th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rot is a German adjective meaning “red (colour)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Rot is a different word: “red (the colour)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine bunte Farbe, im Spektrum die langwelligste Farbe; eine der drei Grundfarben des digitalen RGB-Farbraums”.

What does rot mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    red (colour)

  2. 2

    red (pertaining to Marxism in the widest sense: social democratic, socialist, communist)

  3. 3

    of the social democratic SPD or the more rigidly socialist Linke

  4. 4

    offensivered-haired

  5. 5

    offensiveredskin; Native American; Indian

noun

as Rot
  1. 1

    neuterred (the colour)

  2. 2

    neutergules (red in heraldry)

  3. 3

    neutershort for rote Karte

  4. 4

    neutersynonym of Herz (used alternatively with the so-called “German deck”, never with the “French deck”)

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. eine bunte Farbe, im Spektrum die langwelligste Farbe; eine der drei Grundfarben des digitalen RGB-Farbraums 2. eine rötliche (von mahagony bis orange) Farbe habend 3. zum linken Spektrum gehörend, links stehend, links geordnet 4. den Ureinwohnern Amerikas (insbesondere Nordamerikas; wegen des im Vergleich zu Europäern durchschnittlich höheren Melaninanteils in der Haut) zuzuordnen, Indianer seiend

noun: 1. roter Farbton, ein bestimmter Abschnitt des sichtbaren Lichts im Spektrum der elektromagnetischen Wellen, Malfarbe, Streichfarbe 2. kein Plural, meist ohne Artikel, anderer Name für die Farbe Herz im deutschen Kartenblatt 3. kurz für die Rote Karte 4. Stoppsignal einer Verkehrsampel

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 rot

  • roter masculine nominative singular
  • röter comparative
  • am rötesten superlative
  • am rotesten superlative
  • rote feminine nominative singular
  • rotes neuter nominative singular
  • roten genitive masculine singular
  • rotem dative masculine singular
  • der rote definite includes-article masculine
  • die rote definite feminine includes-article
  • das rote definite includes-article neuter
  • die roten definite includes-article nominative
  • des roten definite genitive includes-article
  • der roten definite feminine genitive
  • dem roten dative definite includes-article
  • roth obsolete
  • r. abbreviation
  • Roth obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to rot

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is rot in German?

rot appears 85 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).

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