Gruss
German, noun
Gruss is spelled G-R-U-S-S (5 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,647th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gruss is a German masculine noun meaning “Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Gruß” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, grüss is a different word: “singular imperative of grüssen”.
What does Gruss mean in English?
noun
- 1
SwitzerlandmasculineSwitzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Gruß
verb
- 1
singular imperative of grüssen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Gruss
- Grusses genitive
- Grüsse plural
- Grusse dative singular
- Grüssen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Gruss in German?
Gruss appears 11 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).