Senke
German, noun
Senke is spelled S-E-N-K-E (5 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 31,999th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Senke is a German feminine noun meaning “well, depression, basin, valley” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, senke is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “flache Vertiefung im Boden”.
What does Senke mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewell, depression, basin, valley
die Norddeutsche Senke
- 2
femininesink
- 3
femininesink (node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it)
- 4
femininedrain (terminal of a field effect transistor)
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. flache Vertiefung im Boden 2. feinmaschiges, quadratisches Netz mit zwei sich rechtwinklig überkreuzenden Draht- oder Kunststoffbügeln, an deren Mitte eine Schnur befestigt ist zum Zwecke des Fangs kleiner Köderfische 3. Empfänger einer Nachricht 4. Endpunkt einer Strömung bei Vektorfeldern mit negativer Divergenz (das Gegenteil einer )
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 Senke
- Senken plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Senke
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Senke in German?
Senke appears 1.3 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).