Raffzahn
German, noun[ˈʁafˌt͡saːn]
Raffzahn is spelled R-A-F-F-Z-A-H-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written German, the 274,993rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Raffzahn is a German masculine noun meaning “crooked upper incisor jutting out under the upper lip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “oberer Schneidezahn, der (schräg) zwischen den Lippen hervorsteht”.
What does Raffzahn mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinecrooked upper incisor jutting out under the upper lip
- 2
derogatorymasculineslanggreedy bastard, puttock (a person who is grabby, greedy, grasping, rapacious)
- 3
colloquialmasculineglutton, greedyguts, greedy pig (one who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. oberer Schneidezahn, der (schräg) zwischen den Lippen hervorsteht 2. jemand, der als hemmungslos nach Besitz oder dessen Vermehrung strebend angesehen wird; habgierige, raffsüchtige Person 3. jemand, der maßlos viel beziehungsweise gierig verschlingend übermäßig isst
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 Raffzahn
- Raffzahnes genitive
- Raffzahns genitive
- Raffzähne plural
- Raffzahne dative singular
- Raffzähnen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Raffzahn?
- [ˈʁafˌt͡saːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Raffzahn in German?
Raffzahn appears about once in every 23 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).