Cannabis
German, noun/ˈkanabɪs/
Cannabis is spelled C-A-N-N-A-B-I-S (8 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written German, the 7,736th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cannabis is a German masculine noun meaning “cannabis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “fachsprachlich für die Pflanzengattung Hanf”.
What does Cannabis mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineneutercannabis
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. fachsprachlich für die Pflanzengattung Hanf 2. Sammelbezeichnung für verschiedene Rauschmittel, die aus Hanfsorten gewonnen werden
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 do you pronounce Cannabis?
- /ˈkanabɪs/
- /kaˈnaːbɪs/
- [ˈkanabɪs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Cannabis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Cannabis in German?
Cannabis appears 8.9 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).