Graus
German, noun
Graus is spelled G-R-A-U-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 43,091st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Graus is a German masculine noun meaning “horror” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a genitive singular of Grau. In lower case, graus is a different word: “singular imperative of grausen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas entsetzlich Fürchterliches”.
What does Graus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehorror
noun
- 1
genitive singular of Grau
verb
- 1
singular imperative of grausen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of grausen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. etwas entsetzlich Fürchterliches
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 Graus
- Grauses genitive
- Grause dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Graus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Graus in German?
Graus appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).