Stille
German, noun
Stille is spelled S-T-I-L-L-E (6 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,267th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stille is a German feminine noun meaning “stillness, silence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, stille is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Abwesenheit von akustischen Signalen wie Lärm, Musik, Geräusch”.
What does Stille mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininestillness, silence
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
- 3
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. die Abwesenheit von akustischen Signalen wie Lärm, Musik, Geräusch 2. die Abwesenheit von Bewegung, Zustand des Stillseins
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Stille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Stille in German?
Stille appears 18 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).