Windstille
German, noun
Windstille is spelled W-I-N-D-S-T-I-L-L-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 67,080th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Windstille is a German feminine noun meaning “windlessness, calm, lull, still air” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, windstille is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Abwesenheit von Wind; das Fehlen jeglichen Windes”.
What does Windstille mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewindlessness, calm, lull, still air
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. die Abwesenheit von Wind; das Fehlen jeglichen Windes
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Windstille
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Windstille in German?
Windstille appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).