Heirat
German, noun
Heirat is spelled H-E-I-R-A-T (6 letters) and appears 6.6 times per million words in written German, the 9,876th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Heirat is a German feminine noun meaning “marrying; marriage; wedding (the act of marrying; the contracting of a marriage)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, heirat is a different word: “singular imperative of heiraten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “festliches Ereignis, bei dem zwei Menschen den Bund der Ehe schließen oder sich verpartnern”.
What does Heirat mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemarrying; marriage; wedding (the act of marrying; the contracting of a marriage)
Durch die Heirat mit einer Bürgerlichen verlor er seinen Rang in der Thronfolge.
verb
- 1
singular imperative of heiraten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. festliches Ereignis, bei dem zwei Menschen den Bund der Ehe schließen oder sich verpartnern
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 Heirat
- Heiraten plural
- Heyrat alternative obsolete
- Heirath obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Heirat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Heirat in German?
Heirat appears 6.6 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).