Reife
German, noun
Reife is spelled R-E-I-F-E (5 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written German, the 5,360th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Reife is a German feminine noun meaning “ripeness, maturity (state or degree of being mature, ripe, ready)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Reif. In lower case, reife is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Vollendung eines Wachstumsprozesses (bei Menschen physisch oder geistig)”.
What does Reife mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineripeness, maturity (state or degree of being mature, ripe, ready)
- 2
feminineripening, maturation (process of becoming mature, ripe, ready)
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Reif
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vollendung eines Wachstumsprozesses (bei Menschen physisch oder geistig) 2. ausreichende geistige Entwicklung sowie Kenntnisse für eine Ausbildungsstufe wie Schulabschluss 3. Geschlechtsreife, sexuelle Reife
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Reife
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Reife in German?
Reife appears 14 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).