Strebe
German, noun
Strebe is spelled S-T-R-E-B-E (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written German, the 36,861st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Strebe is a German feminine noun meaning “strut, brace” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, strebe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “kleine, hilfreich nach Oben geneigte Stütze, die etwas Größeres stabilisiert und Querkräfte aufhebt/aufnimmt”.
What does Strebe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininestrut, brace
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. kleine, hilfreich nach Oben geneigte Stütze, die etwas Größeres stabilisiert und Querkräfte aufhebt/aufnimmt
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 Strebe
- Streben plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Strebe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Strebe in German?
Strebe 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).