mords-
German, prefix
mords- is spelled M-O-R-D-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 87,510th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mords- is a German prefix meaning “An intensifier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Mords is a different word: “genitive singular of Mord”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “vorangestelltes Wortbildungselement bei Adjektiven zur Verdeutlichung einer besonders stark ausgeprägten…”.
What does mords- mean in English?
prefix
- 1
colloquialAn intensifier.
noun
- 1
genitive singular of Mord
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. vorangestelltes Wortbildungselement bei Adjektiven zur Verdeutlichung einer besonders stark ausgeprägten Eigenschaft 2. vorangestelltes Wortbildungselement bei Substantiven zur Verdeutlichung einer besonders stark ausgeprägten Variante
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is mords- in German?
mords- appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).