Winde
German, noun
Winde is spelled W-I-N-D-E (5 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written German, the 13,580th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Winde is a German feminine noun meaning “winch, windlass” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Wind. In lower case, winde is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vorrichtung, mit der man Lasten heben, senken oder heranziehen kann”.
What does Winde mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewinch, windlass
- 2
femininebindweed
noun
- 1
datedmasculinedated form of Windischer (“a Slovene of Austria”)
- 2
masculineobsoleteobsolete form of Wende (“any Slav, Wend”)
noun
- 1
archaicdative singular of Wind
- 2
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Wind
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. Vorrichtung, mit der man Lasten heben, senken oder heranziehen kann 2. Vertreter der Pflanzengattung Convolvulus 3. Dachboden
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 Winde
- Winden plural
- Windin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Winde
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Winde in German?
Winde appears 4.4 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).