Biss
German, noun
Biss is spelled B-I-S-S (4 letters) and appears 6.6 times per million words in written German, the 9,876th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Biss is a German masculine noun meaning “bite (instance or way of biting; wound from biting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, biss is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of beißen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “der Vorgang des Beißens”.
What does Biss mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebite (instance or way of biting; wound from biting)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of beißen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. der Vorgang des Beißens 2. Wundstelle, Wundmal, die durch das Beißen entstanden ist 3. ein stechender Schmerz 4. direkte, zupackende Art oder Haltung, die auch verletzend wirken kann
verb: 1. [1] 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum des Verbs beißen 2. [2] 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum des Verbs beißen
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 Biss
- Bisses genitive
- Bisse plural
- Bisschen diminutive neuter
- Bisslein diminutive neuter
- Bisserl diminutive neuter
- Bissen dative definite plural
- Biß alternative
- biß obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Biss
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Biss in German?
Biss appears 6.6 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).