Stahl
German, noun
Stahl is spelled S-T-A-H-L (5 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written German, the 3,577th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stahl is a German masculine noun meaning “steel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, stahl is a different word: “singular preterite of stehlen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “metallische Legierung, deren Hauptbestandteil Eisen ist; der Kohlenstoffgehalt liegt zwischen 0,02% und 2,06%”.
What does Stahl mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesteel
verb
- 1
singular preterite of stehlen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. metallische Legierung, deren Hauptbestandteil Eisen ist; der Kohlenstoffgehalt liegt zwischen 0,02% und 2,06%. 2. kurze zweischneidige, blanke Stichwaffe (Dolch, Schwert, Messer oder Ähnliches)
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 Stahl
- Stahles genitive
- Stahls genitive
- Stähle plural
- Stahle plural
- Stählen dative definite plural
- Stahlen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Stahl
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Stahl in German?
Stahl appears 22 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).