Taufe
German, noun
Taufe is spelled T-A-U-F-E (5 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written German, the 9,010th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Taufe is a German feminine noun meaning “baptism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, taufe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Sakrament innerhalb christlicher Religionsgemeinschaften zu Aufnahme in das christliche Volk Gottes”.
What does Taufe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebaptism
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. Sakrament innerhalb christlicher Religionsgemeinschaften zu Aufnahme in das christliche Volk Gottes 2. säkularer, feierlicher Akt der Namensgebung 3. das Nassmachen oder -werden
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 Taufe
- Taufen plural
- Täufe alternative
- Tauffe alternative
- Täuffe alternative
- Teufe alternative
- Teuffe alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Taufe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Taufe in German?
Taufe appears 7.4 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).