Angriff
German, noun
Angriff is spelled A-N-G-R-I-F-F (7 letters) and appears 50 times per million words in written German, the 1,705th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Angriff is a German masculine noun meaning “attack, offensive, strike, assault, onslaught, raid, offence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, angriff is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent preterite of angreifen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vorgehen gegen einen Gegner oder Feind”.
What does Angriff mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineattack, offensive, strike, assault, onslaught, raid, offence
in Angriff nehmen.
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent preterite of angreifen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vorgehen gegen einen Gegner oder Feind 2. die Mannschaft beziehungsweise der Spieler, die/der zum Beispiel gerade im Ballbesitz ist oder gerade viel Druck auf den sportlichen Gegner ausübt
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 Angriff
- Angriffes genitive
- Angriffs genitive
- Angriffe plural
- Angriffen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Angriff
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Angriff in German?
Angriff appears 50 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).