Abrieb
German, noun
Abrieb is spelled A-B-R-I-E-B (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 64,132nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abrieb is a German masculine noun meaning “abrasion, wear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, abrieb is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent preterite of abreiben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “durch Reibung verursachte Abnutzung, Substanzverlust der Oberfläche”.
What does Abrieb mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineabrasion, wear
- 2
masculineattrition
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent preterite of abreiben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. durch Reibung verursachte Abnutzung, Substanzverlust der Oberfläche
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 Abrieb
- Abriebes genitive
- Abriebs genitive
- Abriebe plural
- Abrieben dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Abrieb
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Abrieb in German?
Abrieb 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).