AIDS
German, noun
AIDS is spelled A-I-D-S (4 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written German, the 8,348th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). AIDS is a German neuter noun meaning “alternative letter-case form of Aids” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Aids is a different word: “AIDS (disease)”.
What does AIDS mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuteralternative letter-case form of Aids
noun
- 1
neuterAIDS (disease)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. aus einer Infektion mit dem HI-Virus resultierende Summe von Erkrankungen (sogenannte "AIDS definierende Erkrankungen"), die als "AIDS Vollbild" (umgangssprachlich kurz: AIDS) zusammengefasst werden
noun: 1. Immunschwächekrankheit AIDS durch Infektion mit dem HI-Virus
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 AIDS
- AIDS alternative
- Aids alternative
- (das) Aids nominative singular
- des Aids genitive singular
- des Aids’ genitive singular
- Aids’ genitive singular
- (dem) Aids dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to AIDS
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is AIDS in German?
AIDS appears 8.1 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).