lenz
German, adjective
lenz is spelled L-E-N-Z (4 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written German, the 11,837th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lenz is a German adjective meaning “free of water, dry, empty (of a ship, especially its ballast tank)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Lenz is a different word: “spring (season)”.
What does lenz mean in English?
adjective
- 1
free of water, dry, empty (of a ship, especially its ballast tank)
noun
- 1
archaicmasculinespring (season)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. die erste Jahreszeit, Frühling 2. Lebensjahr einer Person 3. Lebensphase zwischen Kindheit und Erwachsensein; das frühe Erwachsenenalter; Zeitraum, in dem man jugendlich oder jung ist
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 lenz
- Lenzes genitive
- Lenze plural
- Lenzen dative definite plural
- lenzer masculine nominative singular
- am lenzesten superlative
- lenze feminine nominative singular
- lenzes neuter nominative singular
- lenzen genitive masculine singular
- lenzem dative masculine singular
- der lenze definite includes-article masculine
- die lenze definite feminine includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is lenz in German?
lenz appears 5.2 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).