Spalte
German, noun
Spalte is spelled S-P-A-L-T-E (6 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written German, the 10,058th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spalte is a German feminine noun meaning “fissure, cleft, crevice, crack, crevasse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Spalt. In lower case, spalte is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schmaler Einschnitt, länglicher Riss”.
What does Spalte mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefissure, cleft, crevice, crack, crevasse
Tiefe Spalten im Mauerwerk waren die Folge des Erdbebens.
- 2
femininecolumn (of text)
- 3
Austriafeminineslice (of fruit)
Gib mir auch eine Spalte der Orange zum Kosten.
- 4
feminineslangvulgarvagina; hole, slit
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Spalt
- 2
archaicdative singular of Spalt
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. schmaler Einschnitt, länglicher Riss 2. untereinander gesetzte Zeichen oder Freistellen 3. schmaler Teil, Scheibe einer Frucht oder Knolle 4. weibliches Geschlechtsteil
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 Spalte
- Spalten plural
- Spalt variant
- Sp. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Spalte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Spalte in German?
Spalte appears 6.5 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).