spitz
German, adjective
spitz is spelled S-P-I-T-Z (5 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written German, the 13,580th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spitz is a German adjective meaning “pointed, pointy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a singular imperative of spitzen. With a capital, Spitz is a different word: “spitz”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schmaler und dünner werdend und in einem Punkt endend; in einer Spitze endend”.
What does spitz mean in English?
adjective
- 1
pointed, pointy
- 2
sharp
- 3
spiky
- 4
acute
- 5
colloquialhorny
verb
- 1
singular imperative of spitzen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of spitzen
noun
- 1
masculinespitz
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. schmaler und dünner werdend und in einem Punkt endend; in einer Spitze endend 2. sexuell erregt seiend; geil, begierig 3. Ironie und/oder Boshaftigkeit in sich tragend; bissig, sarkastisch 4. In der Mathematik wird ein Winkel, der kleiner als ein rechter Winkel ist, als spitzer Winkel bezeichnet
noun: 1. eine kleinwüchsige Hundeart, ehedem der typische Wachhund 2. ein leichter Rausch (regional) 3. Spitze
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 spitz
- spitzer masculine nominative singular
- am spitzesten superlative
- spitze feminine nominative singular
- spitzes neuter nominative singular
- spitzen genitive masculine singular
- spitzem dative masculine singular
- der spitze definite includes-article masculine
- die spitze definite feminine includes-article
- das spitze definite includes-article neuter
- die spitzen definite includes-article nominative
- des spitzen definite genitive includes-article
- der spitzen definite feminine genitive
- dem spitzen dative definite includes-article
- Spitze nominative plural
- Spitzes genitive singular
- Spitzen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to spitz
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is spitz in German?
spitz appears 4.4 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).