Sieb
German, noun
Sieb is spelled S-I-E-B (4 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written German, the 25,090th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sieb is a German neuter noun meaning “sieve; sifter; strainer; colander; riddle (any device with holes used to separate solids from liquids or fine matter from coarse matter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, sieb is a different word: “singular imperative of sieben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Schale oder Fläche mit Löchern zum Trennen gemischter verschiedenartiger Bestandteile; auch im übertragenen…”.
What does Sieb mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutersieve; sifter; strainer; colander; riddle (any device with holes used to separate solids from liquids or fine matter from coarse matter)
Wie kann man Wasser in einem Sieb tragen?
verb
- 1
singular imperative of sieben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Schale oder Fläche mit Löchern zum Trennen gemischter verschiedenartiger Bestandteile; auch im übertragenen Sinne verwendet (Sieb des Eratosthenes)
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 Sieb
- Siebes genitive
- Siebs genitive
- Siebe plural
- Sieben dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Sieb
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Sieb in German?
Sieb appears 1.9 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).