Säure
German, noun
Säure is spelled S-Ä-U-R-E (5 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written German, the 11,837th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Säure is a German feminine noun meaning “sourness, tartness, acidity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, saure is a different word: “Inflected form of sauer”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “chemische Verbindung, die im Zuge einer Säure-Base-Reaktion Protonen abgeben kann”.
What does Säure mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesourness, tartness, acidity
- 2
feminineacid
adjective
- 1
Inflected form of sauer
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. chemische Verbindung, die im Zuge einer Säure-Base-Reaktion Protonen abgeben kann 2. saurer Geschmacksbestandteil
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 Säure
- Säuren plural
- Sre abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Säure
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Säure in German?
Säure appears 5.2 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).