Zelte
German, noun
Zelte is spelled Z-E-L-T-E (5 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written German, the 16,125th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zelte is a German noun meaning “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Zelt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, zelte is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Nebenform zu Zelten, einer Art Lebkuchen, Früchtebrot”.
What does Zelte mean in English?
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Zelt
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. Nebenform zu Zelten, einer Art Lebkuchen, Früchtebrot
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 Zelte
- Zelten variant
- Zelt variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Zelte in German?
Zelte appears 3.5 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).