Ton
German, noun
Ton is spelled T-O-N (3 letters) and appears 39 times per million words in written German, the 2,154th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ton is a German masculine noun meaning “clay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, tön is a different word: “singular imperative of tönen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “feinkörniges Verwitterungsprodukt, Bodenart, Töpfermaterial, Baustoff/Werkstoff”.
What does Ton mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineclay
noun
- 1
masculinetone
- 2
masculinenote (a musical pitch or sound)
- 3
masculinetone (manner of speaking)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of tönen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of tönen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. feinkörniges Verwitterungsprodukt, Bodenart, Töpfermaterial, Baustoff/Werkstoff
noun: 1. etwas, das man hören kann; Klang, Laut 2. Abstufung einer Farbe 3. Art der sprachlichen Ausdrucksweise, Benehmen 4. Tonhöhenverlauf bei Wörtern in Tonsprachen, zum Beispiel im Chinesischen, zur Unterscheidung von Wörtern
suffix: 1. nachgestelltes Wortbildungselement
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 Ton
- Tones genitive
- Tons genitive
- Tone plural
- Tonen dative definite plural
- Thon alternative obsolete
- Töne plural
- Tönen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Ton
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Ton in German?
Ton appears 39 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).