Tadel
German, noun
Tadel is spelled T-A-D-E-L (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 45,845th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tadel is a German masculine noun meaning “blame; reproof” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, tadel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Erziehungsmaßnahme mit verhaltenskorrigierender Funktion”.
What does Tadel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineblame; reproof
- 2
datedmasculineflaw, blemish
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Erziehungsmaßnahme mit verhaltenskorrigierender Funktion
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 Tadel
- Tadels genitive
- Tadeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Tadel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Tadel in German?
Tadel appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).