Geiz
German, noun
Geiz is spelled G-E-I-Z (4 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 32,479th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geiz is a German masculine noun meaning “stinginess, miserliness, closefistedness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, geiz is a different word: “singular imperative of geizen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “heftiger Unwille etwas abzugeben (zum Beispiel Geld)”.
What does Geiz mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestinginess, miserliness, closefistedness
- 2
archaicmasculinegreed, avarice
noun
- 1
masculinesideshoot
verb
- 1
singular imperative of geizen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of geizen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. heftiger Unwille etwas abzugeben (zum Beispiel Geld)
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 Geiz
- Geizes genitive
- Geize dative singular
- Geizen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Geiz
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Geiz in German?
Geiz appears 1.3 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).