Hetze
German, noun
Hetze is spelled H-E-T-Z-E (5 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written German, the 9,010th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hetze is a German feminine noun meaning “hurry, rush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, hetze is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “extreme Eile”.
What does Hetze mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehurry, rush
- 2
femininehunt, chase
- 3
femininehate speech
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. extreme Eile 2. Beförderung einer aggressiven Stimmung und/oder Aktion gegen jemanden/etwas 3. Jagd, bei der das Wild gehetzt wird 4. eine unbestimmt große Gruppe
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 Hetze
- Hetzen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Hetze
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Hetze in German?
Hetze appears 7.4 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).