Stanze
German, noun
Stanze is spelled S-T-A-N-Z-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 129,075th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stanze is a German feminine noun meaning “ottava rima” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, stanze is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Maschine, die eine Form durch Pressen, Stoßen, Schlagen herausschneidet beziehungsweise herstellt”.
What does Stanze mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineottava rima
- 2
femininepunching machine
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Maschine, die eine Form durch Pressen, Stoßen, Schlagen herausschneidet beziehungsweise herstellt 2. stereotype, vorbereitete und oft wiederholte Aussage
noun: 1. aus Italien stammende Strophenform mit dem Reimschema abababcc
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 Stanze
- Stanzen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Stanze
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Stanze in German?
Stanze appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).