Spalt
German, noun
Spalt is spelled S-P-A-L-T (5 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written German, the 22,305th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spalt is a German masculine noun meaning “crack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, spalt is a different word: “singular imperative of spalten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine rissförmige Öffnung”.
What does Spalt mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrack
- 2
masculinesplit, cleavage, fissure
verb
- 1
singular imperative of spalten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine rissförmige Öffnung
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 Spalt
- Spaltes genitive
- Spalts genitive
- Spalte plural
- Spalten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Spalt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Spalt in German?
Spalt appears 2.2 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).