Greif
German, noun
Greif is spelled G-R-E-I-F (5 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written German, the 22,661st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Greif is a German masculine noun meaning “griffin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, greif is a different word: “singular imperative of greifen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Fabelwesen, verwandt dem Drachen, jedoch meist mit Adlerkopf und -flügeln sowie Löwenkörper”.
What does Greif mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegriffin
verb
- 1
singular imperative of greifen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of greifen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fabelwesen, verwandt dem Drachen, jedoch meist mit Adlerkopf und -flügeln sowie Löwenkörper 2. kurz für Greifvogel
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 Greif
- Greifs genitive
- Greifes genitive
- Greifen genitive
- Greife plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Greif
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Greif in German?
Greif appears 2.2 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).