seiden
German, adjective
seiden is spelled S-E-I-D-E-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 64,132nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Seiden is a German adjective meaning “silk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Seiden is a different word: “plural of Seide”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus Seide bestehend oder gemacht”.
What does seiden mean in English?
adjective
- 1
silk
- 2
shining like silk
noun
- 1
feminineplural of Seide
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. aus Seide bestehend oder gemacht 2. wie Seide glänzend
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 seiden
- seidener masculine nominative singular
- seidner masculine nominative singular
- seidene feminine nominative singular
- seidne feminine nominative singular
- seidenes neuter nominative singular
- seidnes neuter nominative singular
- seidenen genitive masculine singular
- seidnen genitive masculine singular
- seidenem dative masculine singular
- seidnem dative masculine singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to seiden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is seiden in German?
seiden 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).