Abriss
German, noun
Abriss is spelled A-B-R-I-S-S (6 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written German, the 9,345th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abriss is a German masculine noun meaning “demolition” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, abriss is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent preterite of abreißen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “bewusste, geplante Zerstörung (zum Beispiel eines Gebäudes)”.
What does Abriss mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedemolition
- 2
masculinesummary, outline
- 3
masculinestub
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent preterite of abreißen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. bewusste, geplante Zerstörung (zum Beispiel eines Gebäudes) 2. Teil eines Gegenstandes (meist einer Eintrittskarte oder Ähnlichem), der zur Entwertung abgerissen wird 3. knappe, kurze Zusammenfassung (zum Beispiel einer Geschichte, eines Textes oder Ähnlichem) 4. unverschämt hohe Forderung nach einem bestimmten Preis
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 Abriss
- Abrisses genitive
- Abrisse plural
- Abrissen dative definite plural
- Abriß alternative
- Abr. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Abriss
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Abriss in German?
Abriss appears 7.1 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).