Stress
German, noun/ʃtʁɛs/
Stress is spelled S-T-R-E-S-S (6 letters) and appears 31 times per million words in written German, the 2,653rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stress is a German masculine noun meaning “stress (emotional pressure)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “anhaltende geistige, seelische oder körperliche Anspannung durch Überbeanspruchung oder schädliche Reize…”.
What does Stress mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestress (emotional pressure)
- 2
colloquialmasculinedispute, quarrel, beef
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. anhaltende geistige, seelische oder körperliche Anspannung durch Überbeanspruchung oder schädliche Reize; seelischer Druck 2. Ärger, Druck 3. einseitig gerichteter Druck, zum Beispiel bei Gesteinsumwandlung 4. Reaktion eines Organismus auf die Einwirkung übermäßiger oder widersprechender Reize chemischer, physikalischer oder auch sozialer Art
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 Stress
- Stresses genitive
- Stresse plural
- Stressen dative definite plural
- Streß alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Stress?
- /ʃtʁɛs/
- /stʁɛs/
- [ʃtʁɛs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Stress
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Stress in German?
Stress appears 31 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).