kratzig
German, adjective
kratzig is spelled K-R-A-T-Z-I-G (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 127,251st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kratzig is a German adjective meaning “scratchy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, krätzig is a different word: “scabietic”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “so rau beschaffen, dass es Abrieb verursacht, wenn es über etwas streift; beziehungsweise sich so anfühlt…”.
What does kratzig mean in English?
adjective
- 1
scratchy
adjective
- 1
scabietic
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. so rau beschaffen, dass es Abrieb verursacht, wenn es über etwas streift; beziehungsweise sich so anfühlt, als ob 2. heiser 3. unfreundlich, schlecht gelaunt
adjective: 1. Krätze habend, von Krätze befallen
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 kratzig
- kratziger masculine nominative singular
- am kratzigsten superlative
- kratzige feminine nominative singular
- kratziges neuter nominative singular
- kratzigen genitive masculine singular
- kratzigem dative masculine singular
- der kratzige definite includes-article masculine
- die kratzige definite feminine includes-article
- das kratzige definite includes-article neuter
- die kratzigen definite includes-article nominative
- des kratzigen definite genitive includes-article
- der kratzigen definite feminine genitive
- dem kratzigen dative definite includes-article
- krätziger positive nominative strong
- krätzige positive nominative strong
- krätziges positive nominative strong
- krätzigen positive genitive strong
- krätzigem positive dative strong
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to kratzig
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kratzig in German?
kratzig appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).