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siebzehn

German, number

siebzehn is spelled S-I-E-B-Z-E-H-N (8 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written German, the 25,938th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Siebzehn is a German number meaning “seventeen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Siebzehn is a different word: “seventeen (number)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Kardinalzahl zwischen sechzehn und achtzehn”.

What does siebzehn mean in English?

number

  1. 1

    seventeen

noun

as Siebzehn
  1. 1

    feminineseventeen (number)

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

number: 1. die Kardinalzahl zwischen sechzehn und achtzehn 2. kurz für „siebzehn Jahre (alt)“

noun: 1. die natürliche Zahl zwischen der Sechzehn und der Achtzehn

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 siebzehn

  • siebenzehn alternative archaic
  • Siebzehnen plural
  • [1] Arabische Ziffern für siebzehn: 17 abbreviation
  • [1] Chinesische Ziffern für siebzehn: 十七, fälschungssicher: 拾柒 abbreviation
  • [1] Römische Ziffern für siebzehn: XVII abbreviation

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to siebzehn

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is siebzehn in German?

siebzehn appears 1.8 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).

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