Silberfaden
German, noun
Silberfaden is spelled S-I-L-B-E-R-F-A-D-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written German, the 267,890th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Silberfaden is a German masculine noun meaning “silver thread” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Silberfäden is a different word: “plural of Silberfaden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Faden aus Silber”.
What does Silberfaden mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesilver thread
noun
- 1
masculineplural of Silberfaden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Faden aus Silber 2. silbern schimmernder Faden
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 Silberfaden
- Silberfadens genitive
- Silberfäden plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Silberfaden in German?
Silberfaden appears about once in every 22 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).