Ritz
German, noun
Ritz is spelled R-I-T-Z (4 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written German, the 29,531st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ritz is a German masculine noun meaning “rip, tear, scratch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, ritz is a different word: “singular imperative of ritzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “längliche, dünne, oberflächliche Beschädigung oder Verletzung”.
What does Ritz mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerip, tear, scratch
verb
- 1
singular imperative of ritzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. längliche, dünne, oberflächliche Beschädigung oder Verletzung
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 Ritz
- Ritzes genitive
- Ritze plural
- Ritzen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Ritz
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Ritz in German?
Ritz appears 1.5 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).