Spross
German, noun
Spross is spelled S-P-R-O-S-S (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written German, the 35,692nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spross is a German masculine noun meaning “sprout, shoot (young plant growing out of the ground; young twig growing on a plant); for outgrowths on potatoes, soybeans etc., the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, spross is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of sprießen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “junger Trieb an einer Pflanze, neu wachsender Teil einer Pflanze”.
What does Spross mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesprout, shoot (young plant growing out of the ground; young twig growing on a plant); for outgrowths on potatoes, soybeans etc., the doublet Sprosse f is more usual
Hier unten am Stamm kommt ein neuer Spross.
- 2
masculinescion, descendant
Er war der Spross einer reichen Kaufmannsfamilie.
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of sprießen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. junger Trieb an einer Pflanze, neu wachsender Teil einer Pflanze 2. Nachkomme, Kind der Familie
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 Spross
- Sprosses genitive
- Sprosse plural
- Sprossen plural
- Sprösschen diminutive neuter
- Sproß alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Spross
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Spross in German?
Spross appears 1.1 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).