Werft
German, noun
Werft is spelled W-E-R-F-T (5 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written German, the 10,439th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Werft is a German feminine noun meaning “shipyard (place where ships are built and repaired)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, werft is a different word: “second-person plural present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Industrieanlage zum Bauen und Reparieren von Schiffen oder Flugzeugen”.
What does Werft mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineshipyard (place where ships are built and repaired)
verb
- 1
second-person plural present
- 2
plural imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Industrieanlage zum Bauen und Reparieren von Schiffen oder Flugzeugen
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 Werft
- Werften plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Werft
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Werft in German?
Werft appears 6.2 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).