Hieb
German, noun
Hieb is spelled H-I-E-B (4 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written German, the 31,493rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hieb is a German masculine noun meaning “blow, stroke, hack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, hieb is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of hauen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “heftiger Schlag mit einem scharfen Gegenstand”.
What does Hieb mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineblow, stroke, hack
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of hauen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. heftiger Schlag mit einem scharfen Gegenstand 2. Holzeinschlag 3. Reihe linienförmiger Einkerbungen auf dem Feilenblatt
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 Hieb
- Hiebes genitive
- Hiebs genitive
- Hiebe plural
- Hieben dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Hieb
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Hieb in German?
Hieb appears 1.4 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).