Gier
German, noun
Gier is spelled G-I-E-R (4 letters) and appears 5.1 times per million words in written German, the 12,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gier is a German feminine noun meaning “greed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, gier is a different word: “singular imperative of gieren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “unmäßiges, maßloses Verlangen”.
What does Gier mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegreed
verb
- 1
singular imperative of gieren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. unmäßiges, maßloses Verlangen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Gier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Gier in German?
Gier appears 5.1 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).