Freier
German, noun
Freier is spelled F-R-E-I-E-R (6 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written German, the 3,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Freier is a German masculine noun meaning “john, punter (client of a prostitute)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, freier is a different word: “comparative degree of frei”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Mann, der eine Frau umwirbt, um sie zu heiraten”.
What does Freier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejohn, punter (client of a prostitute)
- 2
archaicmasculinecourter (one who woos a woman for marriage)
adjective
- 1
comparative degree of frei
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mann, der eine Frau umwirbt, um sie zu heiraten 2. männlicher Kunde einer Prostituierten oder eines Strichjungen
noun: 1. Angehöriger eines gesellschaftlichen Standes, der rechtsfähig war, von Freizügigkeit und dem Recht auf politische Teilhabe Gebrauch machen konnte
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 Freier
- Freiers genitive
- Freierin feminine
- Freiern dative definite plural
- Freyer alternative obsolete
- Freie feminine
- Freien genitive singular
- Freiem dative singular
- der Freie nominative singular
- die Freien nominative plural
- des Freien genitive singular
- der Freien genitive plural
- dem Freien dative singular
- den Freien dative plural
- ein Freier nominative singular
- keine Freien nominative plural
- eines Freien genitive singular
- keiner Freien genitive plural
- einem Freien dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Freier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Freier in German?
Freier appears 23 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).