Kniff
German, noun
Kniff is spelled K-N-I-F-F (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 48,028th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kniff is a German masculine noun meaning “crease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, kniff is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of kneifen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Handlung, jemanden zu kneifen”.
What does Kniff mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecrease
- 2
masculinetrick
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of kneifen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. die Handlung, jemanden zu kneifen 2. gefaltete Stelle in Papier oder Stoff
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 Kniff
- Kniffes genitive
- Kniffs genitive
- Kniffe plural
- Kniffen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Kniff
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Kniff in German?
Kniff appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).