Reichsritter
German, noun/ˈʁaɪ̯çsˌʁɪtɐ/
Reichsritter is spelled R-E-I-C-H-S-R-I-T-T-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 205,761st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Reichsritter is a German masculine noun meaning “imperial knight (a lower nobleman of the Holy Roman Empire)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “reichsunmittelbarer niederer Adliger im Heiligen Römischen Reich”.
What does Reichsritter mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineimperial knight (a lower nobleman of the Holy Roman Empire)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. reichsunmittelbarer niederer Adliger im Heiligen Römischen Reich
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 Reichsritter
- Reichsritters genitive
- Reichsrittern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Reichsritter?
- /ˈʁaɪ̯çsˌʁɪtɐ/
- [ˈʁaɪ̯çsˌʁɪtɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Reichsritter in German?
Reichsritter appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).