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gw

German, noun

gw is spelled G-W (2 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written German, the 19,537th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gw is a German noun meaning “abbreviation of Glückwunsch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does gw mean in English?

noun

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    colloquialslangabbreviation of Glückwunsch

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common is gw in German?

gw appears 2.7 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).

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