Niet
German, noun/niːt/
Niet is spelled N-I-E-T (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 53,554th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Niet is a German masculine noun meaning “rivet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Verbindungsstück ähnlich einer Schraube ohne Gewinde”.
What does Niet mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineneuterrivet
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein Verbindungsstück ähnlich einer Schraube ohne Gewinde
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 Niet
- Niets genitive
- Niete plural
- Nieten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Niet?
- /niːt/
- [niːt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Niet
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Niet in German?
Niet appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).