Sturz
German, noun
Sturz is spelled S-T-U-R-Z (5 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written German, the 6,912th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sturz is a German masculine noun meaning “fall” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, stürz is a different word: “singular imperative of stürzen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “heftiger Fall auf den Boden oder in die Tiefe”.
What does Sturz mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefall
- 2
masculinearchitrave, lintel
- 3
masculineclipping of Radsturz or Achssturz (“camber angle”)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of stürzen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of stürzen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. heftiger Fall auf den Boden oder in die Tiefe 2. erzwungener Rücktritt von einem Amt 3. plötzliches, heftiges Absinken 4. ein tragendes Konstruktionselement über Türen, Fenstern oder sonstigen Maueröffnungen
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 Sturz
- Sturzes genitive
- Stürze plural
- Sturze plural
- Stürzen dative definite plural
- Sturzen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Sturz
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Sturz in German?
Sturz appears 10 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).