tot
German, adjective/toːt/
tot is spelled T-O-T (3 letters) and appears 56 times per million words in written German, the 1,516th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tot is a German adjective meaning “dead, deceased” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht (mehr) lebend”.
What does tot mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dead, deceased
- 2
dead, in most of the senses also present in English
- 3
Describes a thing or situation that is bad, unpleasant, boring, inappropriate, embarrassing, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. nicht (mehr) lebend
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 tot
- toter masculine nominative singular
- am totesten rare superlative
- tote feminine nominative singular
- totes neuter nominative singular
- toten genitive masculine singular
- totem dative masculine singular
- der tote definite includes-article masculine
- die tote definite feminine includes-article
- das tote definite includes-article neuter
- die toten definite includes-article nominative
- des toten definite genitive includes-article
- der toten definite feminine genitive
- dem toten dative definite includes-article
- todt obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tot?
- /toːt/
- [toːt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tot
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tot in German?
tot appears 56 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).