siech
German, adjective/ziːç/
siech is spelled S-I-E-C-H (5 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 136,587th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Siech is a German adjective meaning “sick; ill; weak; frail; ailing; afflicted” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “lange Zeit krank und (alters-)schwach, ohne ernsthafte Aussicht auf Genesung”.
What does siech mean in English?
adjective
- 1
datedsick; ill; weak; frail; ailing; afflicted
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. lange Zeit krank und (alters-)schwach, ohne ernsthafte Aussicht auf Genesung
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 siech
- siecher masculine nominative singular
- am siechsten superlative
- sieche feminine nominative singular
- sieches neuter nominative singular
- siechen genitive masculine singular
- siechem dative masculine singular
- der sieche definite includes-article masculine
- die sieche definite feminine includes-article
- das sieche definite includes-article neuter
- die siechen definite includes-article nominative
- des siechen definite genitive includes-article
- der siechen definite feminine genitive
- dem siechen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce siech?
- /ziːç/
- [ziːç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to siech
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is siech in German?
siech appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).