Drehe
German, noun
Drehe is spelled D-R-E-H-E (5 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written German, the 15,332nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Drehe is a German masculine noun meaning “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Dreh” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, drehe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nähere Umgebung eines Ortes oder dergleichen”.
What does Drehe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenominative/accusative/genitive plural of Dreh
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nähere Umgebung eines Ortes oder dergleichen
noun: 1. Südafrika (KwaZulu-Natal): 2. Stelle, an der zwei Straßen zusammentreffen 3. Stelle, an der ein Verkehrsweg eine Biegung/Krümmung in eine bestimmte Richtung macht 4. Stelle, an der ein Fluss eine Biegung/Krümmung in eine bestimmte Richtung macht
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 Drehe
- Dreh variant
- Drehen nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Drehe in German?
Drehe appears 3.7 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).