Speise
German, noun
Speise is spelled S-P-E-I-S-E (6 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written German, the 24,663rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Speise is a German feminine noun meaning “meal, fare (food)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, speise is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Mahlzeit, zubereitetes Gericht”.
What does Speise mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemeal, fare (food)
Speisen und Getränken.
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. Mahlzeit, zubereitetes Gericht 2. Kurzform für Glockenspeise, das Gussmaterial für eine Glocke
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 Speise
- Speisen plural
- Speis' alternative
- Speis alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Speise
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Speise in German?
Speise appears 1.9 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).