Eiter
German, noun
Eiter is spelled E-I-T-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 56,036th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Eiter is a German masculine noun meaning “pus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, eiter is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “weiß-gelbliche Körperflüssigkeit, die sich bei Entzündungen bildet”.
What does Eiter mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicmasculineatter
- 2
masculinepus
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. weiß-gelbliche Körperflüssigkeit, die sich bei Entzündungen bildet
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 Eiter
- Eiters genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Eiter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Eiter in German?
Eiter appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).