Ritze
German, noun
Ritze is spelled R-I-T-Z-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 56,856th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ritze is a German feminine noun meaning “chink, crack, cranny” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, ritze is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “enger, länglicher Zwischenraum”.
What does Ritze mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininechink, crack, cranny
- 2
femininevulgarvagina, crack
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. enger, länglicher Zwischenraum 2. Vulva
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 Ritze
- Ritzen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Ritze
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Ritze in German?
Ritze 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).