Dez
German, noun
Dez is spelled D-E-Z (3 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written German, the 13,123rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dez is a German masculine noun meaning “head” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Dez. is a different word: “abbreviation of Dezember (“December”)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “regional, mitteldeutsch: umgangssprachliche/saloppe Bezeichnung für Kopf”.
What does Dez mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinehead
noun
- 1
abbreviation of Dezember (“December”)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Dezember
noun: 1. regional, mitteldeutsch: umgangssprachliche/saloppe Bezeichnung für Kopf
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 Dez
- Dezes genitive
- Deze plural
- Dezen dative definite plural
- Deez alternative
- Dätz alternative
- Däz alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Dez in German?
Dez appears 4.6 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).