angesichts
German, preposition
angesichts is spelled A-N-G-E-S-I-C-H-T-S (10 letters) and appears 34 times per million words in written German, the 2,442nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Angesichts is a German preposition meaning “at the sight of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Angesichts is a different word: “genitive singular of Angesicht”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “beim Anblick”.
What does angesichts mean in English?
preposition
- 1
at the sight of
- 2
in view of, in the face of
noun
- 1
genitive singular of Angesicht
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
preposition: 1. beim Anblick 2. bei, wegen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is angesichts in German?
angesichts appears 34 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).