Ebbe
German, noun
Ebbe is spelled E-B-B-E (4 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written German, the 28,120th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ebbe is a German feminine noun meaning “ebb, low tide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, ebbe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “der (in den meist Teilen der Erde) zweimal tägliche Zeitraum des fallenden Wasser durch die Gezeiten und…”.
What does Ebbe mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineebb, low tide
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. der (in den meist Teilen der Erde) zweimal tägliche Zeitraum des fallenden Wasser durch die Gezeiten und damit von den Watten ablaufenden Wassers an den Küsten der Weltmeere 2. Geldmangel
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 Ebbe
- Ebben plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Ebbe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Ebbe in German?
Ebbe appears 1.6 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).