Wollfaden
German, noun
Wollfaden is spelled W-O-L-L-F-A-D-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written German, the 241,486th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wollfaden is a German masculine noun meaning “wool thread, strand of wool” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Wollfäden is a different word: “plural of Wollfaden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Faden aus Wolle”.
What does Wollfaden mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewool thread, strand of wool
noun
- 1
plural of Wollfaden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Faden aus Wolle
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 Wollfaden
- Wollfadens genitive
- Wollfäden plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Wollfaden in German?
Wollfaden appears about once in every 18 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).